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Oak Ridge links IBM quantum processors with AMD supercomputers to test error correction
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a research platform that links IBM quantum processors with AMD-powered high-performance computing. The system is designed to help researchers develop and test quantum error correction, a crucial step towards making quantum computers reliable enough for scientific work.
The platform combines an IBM Quantum System Two with 120-qubit Nighthawk r2 processors, the Umbra HPC system with AMD Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI355X GPUs, and AMD Versal chips for low-latency control and decoding. Researchers will use it to explore algorithms, workflows and approaches such as hierarchical error correction, which IBM says could support a trillion logical operations at a physical error rate of one in a thousand. The work may also contribute to US Department of Energy goals, including a proposed system with 100 logical qubits.
In short
- ORNL has paired IBM quantum processors with AMD high-performance computing.
- Researchers will use the platform to test quantum error correction.
- The work could support US plans for larger fault-tolerant quantum systems.
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Originally published by The Register as “Oak Ridge labs gets hybrid quantum-HPC system to test qubit error correction”.