t cht lk frontiers of science ,” said Dario Gil , IBM SVP and Director of Research .
t cht lk frontiers of science ,” said Dario Gil , IBM SVP and Director of Research .
“ As we continue to advance how quantum systems can scale and deliver value through modular architectures , we will further increase the quality of a utility-scale quantum technology stack – and put it into the hands of our users and partners who will push the boundaries of more complex problems .”
As demonstrated by IBM last year on a 127-qubit IBM Quantum Eagle processor , IBM Quantum systems can now serve as a scientific tool to explore utilityscale classes of problems in chemistry , physics , and materials beyond brute force classical simulation of quantum mechanics .
Since that demonstration , leading researchers , scientists and engineers from organizations including the US Department of Energy ’ s Argonne National Laboratory , the University of Tokyo , the University of Washington , the University of Cologne , Harvard University , Qedma , Algorithmiq , UC Berkeley , Q-CTRL , Fundacion Ikerbasque , Donostia International Physics Center and the University of the Basque Country , as well as IBM , have expanded demonstrations of utility-scale Quantum Computing to confirm its value in exploring uncharted computational territory .
This includes experiments already running on the new IBM Quantum Heron 133-qubit processor , which IBM is making available for users via the cloud .
This is a significant step towards broadening how Quantum Computing can be accessed and put in the hands of users as an instrument for scientific exploration .
IBM Heron is the first in IBM ’ s new class of performant processors with significantly improved error rates , offering a five-times improvement over the previous best records set by IBM Eagle .
Additional IBM Heron processors will join IBM ’ s industry-leading , utility-scale fleet of systems over the course of the next year .
IBM Quantum System Two and Extended IBM Quantum Development Roadmap
IBM Quantum System Two is the foundation of IBM ’ s next generation Quantum Computing system architecture . It combines scalable cryogenic infrastructure and classical 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 computation , assisted by classical computing resources , and leverages a middleware layer to appropriately integrate quantum and classical workflows .
As part of the newly expanded ten-year IBM Quantum Development Roadmap , IBM plans for this system to also house IBM ’ s future generations of quantum processors .
Also , as part of this roadmap , these future processors are intended to gradually improve the quality of operations they can run to significantly extend the complexity and size of workloads they are capable of handling .
Qiskit and Generative AI to Increase Ease of Quantum Software Programming
IBM is also detailing plans for a new generation of its software stack , within which Qiskit 1.0 will be a pivot point defined by stability and speed . Additionally , and with the goal of democratizing Quantum Computing development , IBM is announcing Qiskit Patterns .
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