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Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories

US Department of Energy national laboratory

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Nvidia launches CUDA-Q Logical, a design layer for fault-tolerant quantum computers

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Developer of QUOPS benchmark

Designing software for fault-tolerant quantum computers has meant rebuilding the toolchain every time a hardware maker changes its qubit type or error-correction code. Nvidia's CUDA-Q Logical, announced Sep 14, gives researchers a single programmable layer to model algorithms, error-correction methods, and processor architectures side-by-side before building hardware.

Updated Sep 15

Neuromorphic computers master physics simulations

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Operating world's largest neuromorphic systems for national security research

For decades, simulating the physics of airplane wings, nuclear weapons, or weather systems required warehouse-sized supercomputers consuming megawatts of power. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have now demonstrated that brain-inspired neuromorphic chips can solve these same equations (the partial differential equations underlying nearly all physics simulations) with a fraction of the energy.

Updated May 29

The race to a million qubits

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Collaborating on CMOS photonics for quantum computing

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize drug discovery, cryptography, and materials scienceโ€”but only if they can scale from today's dozens of qubits to millions. The bottleneck isn't the qubits themselves; it's the massive control systems: each qubit needs laser beams precisely controlled by bulky modulators, and thousands of cables snaking from room temperature into refrigerators colder than deep space. A lab rack that controls 100 qubits would need an entire data center to control a million.

Updated May 16