IQN (NewsDesk): Nvidia announced NVQLink, a new open system architecture designed to tightly couple GPU computing power with quantum processors, aiming to build what the company calls accelerated quantum supercomputers by linking quantum hardware directly with leading classical supercomputing infrastructure.
The high speed interconnect has already been adopted across a notably wide swath of the US national laboratory system, connecting quantum processors to computing resources at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, alongside participation from 17 separate quantum hardware and software builders.
According to Nvidia, NVQLink is intended to give quantum researchers a powerful system for the control algorithms required for large scale quantum computing and quantum error correction, two of the central engineering challenges standing between today’s error prone quantum processors and genuinely fault tolerant machines. The architecture is also designed to support hybrid quantum classical systems more broadly, with Nvidia pointing to next generation applications in chemistry and materials science as key areas expected to benefit from tighter integration between quantum and classical hardware.
The announcement, made at GTC Washington, D.C., extends Nvidia’s growing footprint across the quantum computing stack, following earlier moves like the company’s CUDA Q platform and its recently launched Ising open source quantum AI model family, further cementing Nvidia’s position as a common infrastructure layer underpinning much of the hybrid quantum classical research now underway across government, academic and industry labs.
