ORNL, IBM, AMD launch co-design platform for QEC | IBM Quantum Computing Blog

Key Takeaways:

• The U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center (QSC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), IBM, and AMD deployed a co-design platform for quantum error correction (QEC) at IBM’s site in Poughkeepsie, New York.
• The QEC co-design platform pairs IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 processors with ORNL’s Umbra High-Performance Computing (HPC) system, comprising AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs.
• Researchers can use the platform to develop and validate quantum algorithms, workflows, and applications for hybrid HPC-quantum computing environments without building the infrastructure themselves.
• Quantum error correction depends on decoders, the classical software that identifies qubit errors and must keep pace with the quantum processor.
• Placing ORNL’s hardware next to the IBM quantum processors gives the system low-latency quantum-classical execution.