Andy Halliday

So to go from 48 to 50, that was four times.

It had to quadruple, right?

And then double again.

So it had to quadruple the capacity.

So this new supercomputer has the power

Four times what the previous exascale computer system could produce.

And now what it can do, so it's only the very largest supercomputers that can currently offer this level of computational power to simulate a 50 qubit quantum system.

But that 50-qubit simulator that was just surpassing the record, that went over in Europe.

It's a ULIC, Universal Quantum Computer Simulator, ULIC.

And that breakthrough, the ULIC UCS50, taps into the hybrid memory architecture of the NVIDIA GH200 superchips.

And to do this, it uses 16,000 superchips during the simulation.

Okay, so the bottom line of this is you can rest assured that the algorithm development that's necessary to do supercomputing on quantum computers is actually being practiced today on these simulators.

When the full capability of a willow chip, you know, coming from Google or others that are out there, I'm going to talk about a new one now.

Those are arriving.

It's not like they have to now kind of reinvent the process of computing on those quantum computers.

Simultaneously, this ULIC system is simulating quantum computers to allow the researchers to develop their code and their process before we even get the physical quantum computers working.

All right.

What's your chip?

So a couple of just takeaway points on that one.

One is I realized today just how intertwined supercomputer in classic computing development is with quantum development.