Qiskit, the world's most performant quantum
software, can extend length and complexity of certain circuits to
5,000 two-qubit operations with accurate results on IBM quantum
computers
RIKEN and Cleveland Clinic explore new,
scientifically valuable problems by combining quantum and classical
resources with Qiskit; Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute takes steps towards quantum-centric
supercomputing
Qiskit services from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma,
QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing to expand performance
while simplifying how next-generation algorithms can be
built
YORKTOWN
HEIGHTS, N.Y., Nov. 13,
2024 /CNW/ -- Today at its inaugural IBM Quantum
Developer Conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced quantum
hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on
IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and
accuracy.
IBM Quantum Heron, the company's most performant quantum
processor to-date and available in IBM's global quantum data
centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes
of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.
Users can now use these capabilities to expand explorations in how
quantum computers can tackle scientific problems across materials,
chemistry, life sciences, high-energy physics, and more.
This continues the achievement of milestones on IBM's Quantum
Development Roadmap, and further advances the era of quantum
utility as IBM and its partners progress towards quantum advantage
and IBM's advanced, error-corrected system planned for
2029.
The combined improvements across IBM Heron and Qiskit can
execute certain mirrored kicked Ising quantum circuits of up to
5,000 gates, which is nearly twice the number of gates accurately
run in IBM's 2023 demonstration of quantum utility. This work
further extends the performance of IBM's quantum computers beyond
the capabilities of brute-force classical simulation methods. The
2023 utility experiment, published in Nature, demonstrated the
speed results in terms of time to process, per data point, which
totaled 112 hours. The same experiment, using the same data points,
was run on the latest IBM Heron processor and can be completed
in 2.2 hours, which is 50 times faster.
IBM has further evolved Qiskit into the world's most performant
quantum software to allow developers to more easily build complex
quantum circuits with stability, accuracy, and speed. This is
evidenced by results gathered and published on arXiv.org using
Benchpress, an open-source benchmarking tool which IBM used to
measure Qiskit across 1,000 tests, largely from third parties, and
found it to be the highest-performing, most reliable quantum
software development kit against other selected platforms.
"Advances across our hardware and Qiskit are enabling our users
to build new algorithms in which advanced quantum and classical
supercomputing resources can be knit together to combine their
respective strengths," said Jay
Gambetta, Vice President, IBM Quantum. "As we advance on our
roadmap towards error-corrected quantum systems, the algorithms
discovered today across industries will be key to realizing the
potential to solve new problems realized through the convergence of
QPUs, CPUs, and GPUs."
New Software Tools to Advance Development of Next-Generation
Algorithms
The IBM Quantum Platform is further expanding options with new
Qiskit services such as generative AI-based capabilities and
software from IBM partners, allowing a growing network of experts
across industries to build next-generation algorithms for
scientific research.
This includes tools such as the Qiskit Transpiler Service
to power the efficient optimization of quantum circuits for quantum
hardware with AI; Qiskit Code Assistant to help developers
generate quantum code with IBM Granite-based generative AI models;
Qiskit Serverless to run initial quantum-centric
supercomputing approaches across quantum and classical systems; and
the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog to make services available
from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse
Computing for capabilities such as reducing the performance
management of quantum noise, as well as abstracting away the
complexities of quantum circuits to simplify the development of
quantum algorithms.
"Algorithmiq's tensor error network mitigation algorithm (TEM),
available through the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog, offers
state-of-the-art error mitigation for circuits at utility scale by
leveraging steps towards quantum-centric supercomputing approaches,
delivering the fastest quantum runtime we've yet offered to users,"
said Matteo Rossi,
CTO, Algorithmiq. "With the recent advancements we've made to
combine quantum computers with post-processing on GPUs, we are
pushing TEM's capabilities to support circuits with up to 5,000
entangled quantum gates – a milestone for scaling quantum
experiments and tackling complex problems. This could open the door
to quantum simulations and computations previously constrained by
noise limitations."
"Progress across IBM quantum hardware and software are
instrumental to Qedma's mission to build services that will allow
our users to run the longest and most complex quantum circuits,"
said Dorit Aharonov, Chief
Scientific Officer, Qedma. "Combined with our own achievements in
error mitigation, which we offer via Qedma's service in the IBM
Qiskit Functions Catalog, we look forward to furthering our mission
of enabling global users to build algorithms with today's quantum
systems – and to achieve increasingly accurate results of
scientific value."
Qiskit Fuels Quantum and Classical Integration Towards Future
of Computing
As the next evolution of high-performance computing, IBM's
vision of quantum-centric supercomputing aims to integrate advanced
quantum and classical computers executing parallelized workloads to
easily break apart complex problems with performant software,
allowing each architecture to solve parts of an algorithm for which
it is best suited. Such software is being designed to seamlessly
and quickly knit problems back together, allowing algorithms to be
run that are inaccessible or difficult for each computing paradigm
on its own.
RIKEN, a national scientific research institute in Japan, and Cleveland Clinic, a leading
academic medical center and biomedical research institution with an
on-site and utility-scale IBM Quantum System One, are exploring
algorithms for electronic structure problems that are fundamental
to chemistry.
These initiatives represent the first steps towards
quantum-centric supercomputing approaches to realistically model
complex chemical and biological systems, a task historically
believed to require fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Early examples of these types of workflows are methods based on
parallel classical processing of individual samples from quantum
computers. Building on prior techniques, such as QunaSys's
QSCI method, IBM and RIKEN researchers have performed sample-based
quantum diagonalizations in quantum-centric supercomputing
environments, which make use of quantum hardware to accurately
model the electronic structure of iron sulfides, a compound present
widely in nature and organic systems.
Now available as a deployable Qiskit service, this same
technique is being leveraged by Cleveland Clinic to explore how it
could be used to implement quantum-centric simulations of
noncovalent interactions: bonds between molecules that are
essential to many chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical science
processes.
"This research is an example of what makes our research
partnership successful – bringing together IBM's next-generation
technologies with Cleveland Clinic's world-renowned expertise in
healthcare and life sciences," said Lara Jehi, MD, Chief Research
Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic. "Together, we are pushing
through traditional scientific boundaries using cutting-edge
technology such as Qiskit to advance research and find new
treatments for patients around the globe."
"With our partners at IBM, we were able to leverage their
advanced quantum computing electronic structure algorithm to study
– for the first time – intermolecular interactions on the on-site
IBM Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic, which are important for
potential future applications in drug discovery and design," said
Kennie Merz, PhD and quantum
molecular scientist at Cleveland Clinic.
"The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) is
conducting the Japan High Performance Computing-Quantum
(JHPC-Quantum) project, which aims to build a quantum-HPC hybrid
computing platform by integrating our supercomputer, Fugaku, with
an on-premises IBM Quantum System Two powered by an IBM Quantum
Heron processor. In the era of quantum utility, we will strongly
support the initiative's goal of demonstrating quantum-centric
supercomputing approaches by using our platform as a first step
towards this new computing architecture," said Mitsuhisa Sato, the
director of Quantum-HPC Hybrid Platform Division, RIKEN Center for
Computational Science.
Additionally, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute is using Qiskit tools to take initial steps to
build IBM's first realization of quantum-centric supercomputing on
a university campus. With performant software, RPI and IBM are
aiming to successfully connect workloads across the AiMOS classical
supercomputer and IBM Quantum System One, both located on RPI's
campus, into a single computational environment managed by a
standard high-performance computing resource manager.
"Since unveiling IBM Quantum System One on the RPI campus
earlier this year, we have taken steps toward another significant
first by starting the work to link the quantum system and our AiMOS
supercomputer," said Martin A.
Schmidt, Ph.D., president of RPI. "This moment is a
testament to our longstanding partnership with IBM, and, like the
pairing of quantum computing and supercomputing, our two
institutions together will drive exciting breakthroughs in the
years to come."
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