SANTA CLARA — NVIDIA‘s collaboration with Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre marks a significant leap forward in quantum computing exploration, as the center integrates the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform turbocharged by NVIDIA Grace Hopper™ Superchips into its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. This strategic move aims to propel breakthroughs in quantum computing by providing researchers with cutting-edge simulation tools and extreme performance capabilities.

Tim Costa, Director of HPC and Quantum Computing at NVIDIA, emphasizes the pivotal role of high-performance simulation in advancing quantum computing research, stating, “CUDA Quantum, together with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip, allows innovators such as Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre to achieve these essential breakthroughs and accelerate the timeline to useful quantum-integrated supercomputing.”

Mark Stickells, Executive Director at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, highlights the center’s commitment to advancing scientific exploration, stating, “NVIDIA’s CUDA Quantum platform will allow our scientists to push the boundaries of what’s possible in quantum computing research.”

Quantum computing holds immense potential across various scientific domains, with applications ranging from astronomy and life sciences to finance and bioinformatics. Pawsey’s deployment of the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip nodes, based on NVIDIA MGX™ modular architecture, promises to revolutionize quantum computing research by eliminating traditional CPU-to-GPU PCIe connections and significantly enhancing bandwidth between GPU and CPU.

This breakthrough technology, combined with the prowess of the CUDA Quantum platform, enables researchers to develop hybrid algorithms that intelligently leverage both classical and quantum computing kernels. Applications such as quantum machine learning, chemistry simulations, image processing for radio astronomy, and financial analysis will be among the focus areas, signaling a new era of quantum-classical computing synergy.

Pawsey’s commitment to making the NVIDIA Grace Hopper platform available to the Australian quantum community underscores its dedication to fostering innovation and collaboration in quantum computing research on a global scale.