NVIDIA, Rolls-Royce, and Classiq announce quantum computing breakthrough
The companies have designed and simulated the world’s largest quantum computing circuit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which Rolls-Royce plans to use for modeling the performance of jet engine designs in simulations
NVIDIA, Rolls-Royce, and Classiq, an Israeli quantum software company, have announced a quantum computing breakthrough aimed at bringing ever-increasing efficiency to jet engines.
Using NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform, the companies have designed and simulated the world’s largest quantum computing circuit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) — a circuit that measures 10 million layers deep with 39 qubits.
Rolls-Royce plans to use the new circuit for modeling the performance of jet engine designs in simulations that use both classical and quantum computing methods.
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“Designing jet engines, which are one of the most complicated devices on earth, is expensive and computationally challenging,” said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform gives Rolls-Royce a potential path to tackle these problems head-on while accelerating its research and future development of more efficient jet engines.”
Rolls-Royce and its partner, Israel-based Classiq, designed the circuit using Classiq’s synthesis engine and then simulated it using NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The speed and scale of the process were made possible by NVIDIA cuQuantum, a software development kit that includes optimized libraries and tools to speed up quantum computing workflows.
