IonQ to Advance Hybrid Quantum Computing with New Chemistry Application and NVIDIA CUDA-Q
The work reaffirms IonQ’s focus on making quantum acceleration as simple and ubiquitous as GPU acceleration for on-prem and hybrid deployments
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Showcased via a joint presentation at SC24, the application demonstrates the seamless integration of the core workflow behind several hybrid quantum-classical approaches to calculate the specific properties of a molecule’s electronic structure. These approaches have potential relevance in many chemistry-focused commercial applications, such as identifying how drug molecules might interact with specific proteins in the human body. The achievement captures IonQ’s interest in developing solutions that combine the benefits of quantum processing units (QPUs) with the accelerated, heterogeneous computing capabilities of the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform.
“IonQ is building on its approach of accelerating AI, scientific compute, and other supercomputing workloads with quantum hardware – enabling entirely new ways to approach previously unsolvable problems,” said
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The demonstration at SC24 showcases a novel way to interrogate the properties of specific molecules in a resource-efficient way that has relevance in larger application workflows pertaining to pharma and other commercial domains. The work also sets the stage for
“Useful quantum applications will need to draw on both quantum hardware and AI supercomputing resources,” said Elica Kyoseva, Director of Quantum Algorithm Engineering, NVIDIA. “The CUDA-Q platform is allowing researchers and developers to explore these paradigms by accessing NVIDIA accelerated computing alongside IonQ’s quantum processors.”
Today’s news reaffirms IonQ’s commitment to developing hardware and software that leverages a combination of quantum and classical computation to enable efficient, performant, robust solutions that can be deployed at commercial scale.
IonQ’s Hybrid Services suite makes designing and deploying quantum-accelerated applications that take advantage of IonQ’s leading quantum hardware easier than ever. It achieves this via a flexible, easy-to-configure hybrid infrastructure, workflow management, and scheduling for cloud or on-prem installations. Further, it has powerful tools to help application developers explore new applications and use cases, such as prebuilt solvers for problem classes like quadratic optimization and graph partitioning, and out-of-the-box support for a variety of common programming models, including NVIDIA CUDA-Q quantum kernels.
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