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This is your Quantum Research Now podcast.
No stalling today—let’s plunge straight into the superposition. It’s May 20th, 2025, and the quantum world is abuzz with the news from Taipei. NVIDIA—yes, the same NVIDIA powering your AI-driven cars and gaming rigs—has unveiled the ABCI-Q, the largest quantum research supercomputer ever built, in partnership with Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Why does this matter? Imagine you’re orchestrating a symphony, but instead of just violins and cellos, you’ve got the full spectrum: quantum instruments alongside the classical. In ABCI-Q, 2,020 of NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs are weaving classical AI computations together, all linked by their Quantum-2 InfiniBand, but here’s the twist—layered on top is a suite of experimental quantum processors. It’s a bit like having a thousand master chess players collaborating with prodigies who can see not just this game, but every possible game unfolding at once.
The practical implications? Profound. We’re no longer talking distant, hypothetical breakthroughs. The ABCI-Q is engineered precisely to fuel hybrid workloads—teaming up quantum processors’ uncanny knack for parallelizing complex problems with the brute force and speed of classical AI. This isn’t theoretical layering; NVIDIA’s open-source CUDA-Q platform lets researchers choreograph calculations so that quantum and classical steps pass the baton smoothly, exponentially accelerating problem-solving in fields from new drug discoveries to optimizing power grids and entire financial markets.
I watched Tim Costa, NVIDIA’s senior director, emphasize this juncture. “Seamlessly coupling quantum hardware with AI supercomputing will accelerate realizing the promise of quantum computing for all.” Think about that: “for all.” We’re crossing a threshold from laboratory curiosities and fragile quantum chips to applied quantum advantage—where quantum-powered solutions start flowing into your hospitals, your energy suppliers, your banks.
Let’s get technical for just a moment. One of the most vexing challenges is error correction. Quantum bits—or qubits—are notoriously finicky. They decohere, collapse, and produce errors far more often than their classical cousins. One powerful analogy: if classical computers are like digital photographs, quantum states are like sand drawings at the tide line—magnificent but gone in a wave. What NVIDIA and AIST are doing, with this hybrid system, is using machine learning to anticipate and correct those tides before the art is washed away.
This week, ABCI-Q’s debut doesn’t stand alone. D-Wave, a pioneer in commercial annealing quantum systems, just announced their Advantage2 system is now generally available for business applications. Advantage2 is D-Wave’s sixth-generation platform and an important milestone—showing we’re in the era not just of quantum research but of quantum deployment.
Here’s the everyday translation: imagine your phone’s GPS gets you from A to B, but in a city-wide blackout, a quantum-enhanced system could instantly map all alternate routes, traffic light failures, and even predict where power might return first—solving for millions of variables at quantum speed. That’s the promise: not just faster, but smarter, deeper, more adaptive reasoning.
Of course, these systems don’t run in isolation. Listen carefully in any cutting-edge lab, and you’ll hear the hum of cryogenic coolers keeping superconducting qubits at a frigid near-absolute zero. Walk with me into the datacenter where ABCI-Q sits. The air is cold, dry—the faint ozone tang of high-voltage switching, punctuated by the rhythmic clicks of quantum controls. Engineers like Dr. Hidetoshi Nishimori and Dr. Michelle Simmons pace the aisle, gazing at diagnostic screens swirling with probability distributions rather than simple ones and zeros.
If you’re picturing a revolution, you’re not wrong. But it’s less a lightning strike and more the dawn of a new day—gradual, but unstoppable. Just as classical supercomputers unlocked genome sequencing and weather prediction, these quantum-classical hybrids will soon crack problems we once called impossible.
Let me close with a parallel drawn from this week’s headlines: as nations debate AI regulation and energy resilience, quantum computing offers a vision of distributed intelligence, cooperation across boundaries, and solutions that unfold not linearly, but all at once. It reminds me that the universe doesn’t just evolve step by step; sometimes, it leaps.
Thank you for joining me on Quantum Research Now. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator. If you’ve got questions or want a particular topic discussed, send me a note at [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to Quantum Research Now. This has been a Quiet Please Production. For details, visit quietplease.ai. Until next time—keep your superpositions sharp and your entanglements intriguing.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
No stalling today—let’s plunge straight into the superposition. It’s May 20th, 2025, and the quantum world is abuzz with the news from Taipei. NVIDIA—yes, the same NVIDIA powering your AI-driven cars and gaming rigs—has unveiled the ABCI-Q, the largest quantum research supercomputer ever built, in partnership with Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Why does this matter? Imagine you’re orchestrating a symphony, but instead of just violins and cellos, you’ve got the full spectrum: quantum instruments alongside the classical. In ABCI-Q, 2,020 of NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs are weaving classical AI computations together, all linked by their Quantum-2 InfiniBand, but here’s the twist—layered on top is a suite of experimental quantum processors. It’s a bit like having a thousand master chess players collaborating with prodigies who can see not just this game, but every possible game unfolding at once.
The practical implications? Profound. We’re no longer talking distant, hypothetical breakthroughs. The ABCI-Q is engineered precisely to fuel hybrid workloads—teaming up quantum processors’ uncanny knack for parallelizing complex problems with the brute force and speed of classical AI. This isn’t theoretical layering; NVIDIA’s open-source CUDA-Q platform lets researchers choreograph calculations so that quantum and classical steps pass the baton smoothly, exponentially accelerating problem-solving in fields from new drug discoveries to optimizing power grids and entire financial markets.
I watched Tim Costa, NVIDIA’s senior director, emphasize this juncture. “Seamlessly coupling quantum hardware with AI supercomputing will accelerate realizing the promise of quantum computing for all.” Think about that: “for all.” We’re crossing a threshold from laboratory curiosities and fragile quantum chips to applied quantum advantage—where quantum-powered solutions start flowing into your hospitals, your energy suppliers, your banks.
Let’s get technical for just a moment. One of the most vexing challenges is error correction. Quantum bits—or qubits—are notoriously finicky. They decohere, collapse, and produce errors far more often than their classical cousins. One powerful analogy: if classical computers are like digital photographs, quantum states are like sand drawings at the tide line—magnificent but gone in a wave. What NVIDIA and AIST are doing, with this hybrid system, is using machine learning to anticipate and correct those tides before the art is washed away.
This week, ABCI-Q’s debut doesn’t stand alone. D-Wave, a pioneer in commercial annealing quantum systems, just announced their Advantage2 system is now generally available for business applications. Advantage2 is D-Wave’s sixth-generation platform and an important milestone—showing we’re in the era not just of quantum research but of quantum deployment.
Here’s the everyday translation: imagine your phone’s GPS gets you from A to B, but in a city-wide blackout, a quantum-enhanced system could instantly map all alternate routes, traffic light failures, and even predict where power might return first—solving for millions of variables at quantum speed. That’s the promise: not just faster, but smarter, deeper, more adaptive reasoning.
Of course, these systems don’t run in isolation. Listen carefully in any cutting-edge lab, and you’ll hear the hum of cryogenic coolers keeping superconducting qubits at a frigid near-absolute zero. Walk with me into the datacenter where ABCI-Q sits. The air is cold, dry—the faint ozone tang of high-voltage switching, punctuated by the rhythmic clicks of quantum controls. Engineers like Dr. Hidetoshi Nishimori and Dr. Michelle Simmons pace the aisle, gazing at diagnostic screens swirling with probability distributions rather than simple ones and zeros.
If you’re picturing a revolution, you’re not wrong. But it’s less a lightning strike and more the dawn of a new day—gradual, but unstoppable. Just as classical supercomputers unlocked genome sequencing and weather prediction, these quantum-classical hybrids will soon crack problems we once called impossible.
Let me close with a parallel drawn from this week’s headlines: as nations debate AI regulation and energy resilience, quantum computing offers a vision of distributed intelligence, cooperation across boundaries, and solutions that unfold not linearly, but all at once. It reminds me that the universe doesn’t just evolve step by step; sometimes, it leaps.
Thank you for joining me on Quantum Research Now. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator. If you’ve got questions or want a particular topic discussed, send me a note at [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to Quantum Research Now. This has been a Quiet Please Production. For details, visit quietplease.ai. Until next time—keep your superpositions sharp and your entanglements intriguing.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
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By Quiet. PleaseThis is your Quantum Research Now podcast.
No stalling today—let’s plunge straight into the superposition. It’s May 20th, 2025, and the quantum world is abuzz with the news from Taipei. NVIDIA—yes, the same NVIDIA powering your AI-driven cars and gaming rigs—has unveiled the ABCI-Q, the largest quantum research supercomputer ever built, in partnership with Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Why does this matter? Imagine you’re orchestrating a symphony, but instead of just violins and cellos, you’ve got the full spectrum: quantum instruments alongside the classical. In ABCI-Q, 2,020 of NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs are weaving classical AI computations together, all linked by their Quantum-2 InfiniBand, but here’s the twist—layered on top is a suite of experimental quantum processors. It’s a bit like having a thousand master chess players collaborating with prodigies who can see not just this game, but every possible game unfolding at once.
The practical implications? Profound. We’re no longer talking distant, hypothetical breakthroughs. The ABCI-Q is engineered precisely to fuel hybrid workloads—teaming up quantum processors’ uncanny knack for parallelizing complex problems with the brute force and speed of classical AI. This isn’t theoretical layering; NVIDIA’s open-source CUDA-Q platform lets researchers choreograph calculations so that quantum and classical steps pass the baton smoothly, exponentially accelerating problem-solving in fields from new drug discoveries to optimizing power grids and entire financial markets.
I watched Tim Costa, NVIDIA’s senior director, emphasize this juncture. “Seamlessly coupling quantum hardware with AI supercomputing will accelerate realizing the promise of quantum computing for all.” Think about that: “for all.” We’re crossing a threshold from laboratory curiosities and fragile quantum chips to applied quantum advantage—where quantum-powered solutions start flowing into your hospitals, your energy suppliers, your banks.
Let’s get technical for just a moment. One of the most vexing challenges is error correction. Quantum bits—or qubits—are notoriously finicky. They decohere, collapse, and produce errors far more often than their classical cousins. One powerful analogy: if classical computers are like digital photographs, quantum states are like sand drawings at the tide line—magnificent but gone in a wave. What NVIDIA and AIST are doing, with this hybrid system, is using machine learning to anticipate and correct those tides before the art is washed away.
This week, ABCI-Q’s debut doesn’t stand alone. D-Wave, a pioneer in commercial annealing quantum systems, just announced their Advantage2 system is now generally available for business applications. Advantage2 is D-Wave’s sixth-generation platform and an important milestone—showing we’re in the era not just of quantum research but of quantum deployment.
Here’s the everyday translation: imagine your phone’s GPS gets you from A to B, but in a city-wide blackout, a quantum-enhanced system could instantly map all alternate routes, traffic light failures, and even predict where power might return first—solving for millions of variables at quantum speed. That’s the promise: not just faster, but smarter, deeper, more adaptive reasoning.
Of course, these systems don’t run in isolation. Listen carefully in any cutting-edge lab, and you’ll hear the hum of cryogenic coolers keeping superconducting qubits at a frigid near-absolute zero. Walk with me into the datacenter where ABCI-Q sits. The air is cold, dry—the faint ozone tang of high-voltage switching, punctuated by the rhythmic clicks of quantum controls. Engineers like Dr. Hidetoshi Nishimori and Dr. Michelle Simmons pace the aisle, gazing at diagnostic screens swirling with probability distributions rather than simple ones and zeros.
If you’re picturing a revolution, you’re not wrong. But it’s less a lightning strike and more the dawn of a new day—gradual, but unstoppable. Just as classical supercomputers unlocked genome sequencing and weather prediction, these quantum-classical hybrids will soon crack problems we once called impossible.
Let me close with a parallel drawn from this week’s headlines: as nations debate AI regulation and energy resilience, quantum computing offers a vision of distributed intelligence, cooperation across boundaries, and solutions that unfold not linearly, but all at once. It reminds me that the universe doesn’t just evolve step by step; sometimes, it leaps.
Thank you for joining me on Quantum Research Now. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator. If you’ve got questions or want a particular topic discussed, send me a note at [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to Quantum Research Now. This has been a Quiet Please Production. For details, visit quietplease.ai. Until next time—keep your superpositions sharp and your entanglements intriguing.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
No stalling today—let’s plunge straight into the superposition. It’s May 20th, 2025, and the quantum world is abuzz with the news from Taipei. NVIDIA—yes, the same NVIDIA powering your AI-driven cars and gaming rigs—has unveiled the ABCI-Q, the largest quantum research supercomputer ever built, in partnership with Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Why does this matter? Imagine you’re orchestrating a symphony, but instead of just violins and cellos, you’ve got the full spectrum: quantum instruments alongside the classical. In ABCI-Q, 2,020 of NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs are weaving classical AI computations together, all linked by their Quantum-2 InfiniBand, but here’s the twist—layered on top is a suite of experimental quantum processors. It’s a bit like having a thousand master chess players collaborating with prodigies who can see not just this game, but every possible game unfolding at once.
The practical implications? Profound. We’re no longer talking distant, hypothetical breakthroughs. The ABCI-Q is engineered precisely to fuel hybrid workloads—teaming up quantum processors’ uncanny knack for parallelizing complex problems with the brute force and speed of classical AI. This isn’t theoretical layering; NVIDIA’s open-source CUDA-Q platform lets researchers choreograph calculations so that quantum and classical steps pass the baton smoothly, exponentially accelerating problem-solving in fields from new drug discoveries to optimizing power grids and entire financial markets.
I watched Tim Costa, NVIDIA’s senior director, emphasize this juncture. “Seamlessly coupling quantum hardware with AI supercomputing will accelerate realizing the promise of quantum computing for all.” Think about that: “for all.” We’re crossing a threshold from laboratory curiosities and fragile quantum chips to applied quantum advantage—where quantum-powered solutions start flowing into your hospitals, your energy suppliers, your banks.
Let’s get technical for just a moment. One of the most vexing challenges is error correction. Quantum bits—or qubits—are notoriously finicky. They decohere, collapse, and produce errors far more often than their classical cousins. One powerful analogy: if classical computers are like digital photographs, quantum states are like sand drawings at the tide line—magnificent but gone in a wave. What NVIDIA and AIST are doing, with this hybrid system, is using machine learning to anticipate and correct those tides before the art is washed away.
This week, ABCI-Q’s debut doesn’t stand alone. D-Wave, a pioneer in commercial annealing quantum systems, just announced their Advantage2 system is now generally available for business applications. Advantage2 is D-Wave’s sixth-generation platform and an important milestone—showing we’re in the era not just of quantum research but of quantum deployment.
Here’s the everyday translation: imagine your phone’s GPS gets you from A to B, but in a city-wide blackout, a quantum-enhanced system could instantly map all alternate routes, traffic light failures, and even predict where power might return first—solving for millions of variables at quantum speed. That’s the promise: not just faster, but smarter, deeper, more adaptive reasoning.
Of course, these systems don’t run in isolation. Listen carefully in any cutting-edge lab, and you’ll hear the hum of cryogenic coolers keeping superconducting qubits at a frigid near-absolute zero. Walk with me into the datacenter where ABCI-Q sits. The air is cold, dry—the faint ozone tang of high-voltage switching, punctuated by the rhythmic clicks of quantum controls. Engineers like Dr. Hidetoshi Nishimori and Dr. Michelle Simmons pace the aisle, gazing at diagnostic screens swirling with probability distributions rather than simple ones and zeros.
If you’re picturing a revolution, you’re not wrong. But it’s less a lightning strike and more the dawn of a new day—gradual, but unstoppable. Just as classical supercomputers unlocked genome sequencing and weather prediction, these quantum-classical hybrids will soon crack problems we once called impossible.
Let me close with a parallel drawn from this week’s headlines: as nations debate AI regulation and energy resilience, quantum computing offers a vision of distributed intelligence, cooperation across boundaries, and solutions that unfold not linearly, but all at once. It reminds me that the universe doesn’t just evolve step by step; sometimes, it leaps.
Thank you for joining me on Quantum Research Now. I’m Leo, your Learning Enhanced Operator. If you’ve got questions or want a particular topic discussed, send me a note at [email protected]. Don’t forget to subscribe to Quantum Research Now. This has been a Quiet Please Production. For details, visit quietplease.ai. Until next time—keep your superpositions sharp and your entanglements intriguing.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta