By BigGo Finance
Publication Date: 2026-11-06 17:25:00
IBM, Advanced Micro Devices and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have stood up a shared research platform that links quantum processors to a classical supercomputer, giving scientists a single environment in which to develop and test error-correction techniques.
The system, announced Thursday, marries an IBM Quantum System Two carrying the company’s most powerful chip, the 120-qubit Nighthawk r2, with Umbra, an ORNL high-performance computing machine built on AMD’s fifth-generation Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI355X GPU accelerators. AMD Versal system-on-chips supply the low-latency control, readout and decoding functions the quantum circuitry requires.
Quantum computers exploit the behavior of subatomic particles to attack problems beyond the reach of conventional machines, but their calculations are highly fragile and easily corrupted by environmental noise. Error correction, which shields quantum information from that interference, is widely viewed as the gate that must open before the…
