By Jeff Burt
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 22:24:00
When the commercial, scalable,
fault-tolerant quantum computing era really begins, when it becomes widely
available, it will – least at the start – be a cloud service that is integrated
with classical, powerful supercomputers, accelerator-like nodes that will run
alongside with CPUs and GPUs and take on the workloads that are too powerful
for their classical kin.
Increasingly, major players in
high-end computing as well as smaller vendor and startups are beginning to put
pieces in place that will allow such integrated systems to operate smoothly. As
we noted last year, Nvidia, which supplies much of the fuel for the
still-expanding AI market, has begun equipping its offerings with capabilities
to link
HPC with quantum. For example, NVQLink is a high-speed interconnect for
linking classical supercomputers to quantum systems, while CUDA-Q is Nvidia’s
quantum-classical platform.
More recently, startup Quantum
Elements is using a combination
of AI and digital twins…
