{"id":121606,"date":"2021-04-16T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/gtc21-nvidia-launches-cuquantum-dips-a-toe-in-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2021-04-16T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:23:18","slug":"gtc21-nvidia-launches-cuquantum-dips-a-toe-in-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/gtc21-nvidia-launches-cuquantum-dips-a-toe-in-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"GTC21: Nvidia Launches cuQuantum; Dips a Toe in Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gtc21-nvidia-launches-cuquantum-dips-a-toe-in-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Nvidia officially dipped a toe into quantum computing with the launch of cuQuantum SDK, a development platform for simulating quantum circuits on GPU-accelerated systems. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized in his keynote, Nvidia doesn\u2019t plan to build quantum computers, but thinks GPU-accelerated platforms are the best systems for quantum circuit and algorithm development and testing.<\/p>\n<p>As a proof point, Nvidia reported it collaborated with Caltech to develop \u201ca state-of-the-art quantum circuit simulator with cuQuantum running on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/a100\/\">NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs<\/a>. It generated a sample from a full-circuit simulation of the Google Sycamore circuit in 9.3 minutes on Selene, a task that 18 months ago experts thought would take days using millions of CPU cores.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Nvidia officially dipped a toe into quantum computing with the launch of cuQuantum SDK, a development platform for simulating quantum circuits on GPU-accelerated systems. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized in his keynote, Nvidia doesn\u2019t plan to build quantum computers, but thinks GPU-accelerated platforms are the best systems for quantum circuit and algorithm development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}