IBM announced the completion of its latest expansion of the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, which operates the highest number of available utility-scale quantum computers at a single location in the world.
Now available via the cloud, IBM’s Heron-based system offers up to a 16-fold improvement in performance and a 25-fold increase in speed over previous IBM quantum computers as they were measured two years ago.
The systems are a part of the more than a dozen quantum computers offered to global clients via the IBM cloud. The IBM Quantum Heron processor, introduced late last year, has now been deployed in IBM’s global Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie.
The two IBM Heron-based computers are now available with the additional systems within the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie. They are now all capable of operating the point at which quantum computers can run quantum circuits more accurately than classical computers simulating them. Global users can look forward to the discovery of new quantum algorithms that will unlock quantum advantage.
IBM’s users are now tapping the improved performance capabilities of IBM Heron and IBM utility-scale systems to build quantum algorithms for their industries with Qiskit, IBM’s quantum software stack, which has been built to simplify programming quantum computers.
“Since IBM made the first quantum computer available on the cloud in 2016, we have broken barriers across quantum hardware and software to build our largest and highest-performing fleet of globally accessible quantum systems,” said Jay Gambetta, Vice President at IBM Quantum.
“Our quantum data center in Poughkeepsie is the epicenter of these efforts, with more organizations around the world using our systems here in the Hudson Valley to explore industry-relevant problems on real quantum hardware. As we continue to expand our quantum computers in Poughkeepsie and globally, we will work with our network of more than 250 organizations to accelerate the pace of discovery in quantum computing,” he added.
“When you are focused on achieving algorithmic quantum advantage, working with highly reliable, stable, and high-performing quantum hardware is essential. We chose to partner with IBM because their quantum computers offer the advanced engineering and performance we need in order to meet our goals with confidence,” said Dorit Aharonov, Chief Scientific Officer of Qedma Quantum Computing.
The Poughkeepsie data center will continue to serve as a global hub for IBM’s Quantum Network as the company extends its worldwide fleet of systems, including the second IBM Quantum Data Center which will soon open in Ehningen, Germany.
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