2023-12-04 23:14:03
IBM Quantum System Two Expands Roadmap to Advance Quantum Utility Era
Today, at the annual event IBM Quantum SummitIBM debuted the ‘IBM Quantum Heron,’ the first in a new series of utility-scale quantum processors with an architecture designed over the past four years to deliver IBM’s highest performance metrics and lowest error rates of any IBM Quantum processor to date.
IBM also announced IBM Quantum System Two, the company’s first modular quantum computer and the foundation of IBM’s quantum-centric supercomputing architecture. The first IBM Quantum System Two, located in Yorktown Heights, New York, began operations with three IBM Heron processors.
With this critical foundation now in place, along with other advances in quantum hardware, theory and software, IBM extends its IBM Quantum Development Roadmap through 2033, with new goals to significantly improve the quality of operations. This would increase the size of quantum circuits capable of functioning and help realize the full potential of quantum computing at scale.
“We are firmly in the era where quantum computers are being used as a tool to explore new frontiers of science,” said Dario Gil, senior vice president and chief research officer at IBM. “As we continue to advance the way quantum systems can scale and deliver value through modular architectures, we will further increase the quality of many utility-scale quantum technologies – and get them into the hands of our users and partners who will expand the limits of more complex problems.”
As demonstrated by IBM earlier this year on a 127-qubit ‘IBM Quantum Eagle’ processor, IBM Quantum systems can now serve as a scientific tool for exploring different types of problems in areas such as chemistry, physics and materials that go beyond simulation. classical quantum mechanics.
IBM Quantum System Two and IBM Quantum Extended Development Roadmap
IBM Quantum System Two is the foundation of IBM’s next-generation quantum computing system architecture. It combines scalable cryogenic infrastructure and classic runtime servers with modular qubit control electronics. The new system is a building block for IBM’s vision of quantum-centric supercomputing. This architecture combines quantum communication and computing, aided by classical computing capabilities, and leverages a middleware layer to properly integrate quantum and classical workflows.
As part of IBM’s newly expanded ten-year Quantum Development Roadmap, IBM plans for this system to also house future generations of IBM quantum processors. Additionally, as part of this roadmap, these future processors aim to gradually improve the quality of the operations they can perform to significantly expand the complexity and size of the workloads they are capable of handling.
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