Australia’s Pawsey supercomputer research centre plugs into Nvidia
Nvidia has announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the Nvidia CUDA Quantum platform to its National Supercomputing and Quantum and Computing Innovation Hub to help scientists power additional quantum computing simulations.
The Nvidia CUDA Quantum platform is an open-source hybrid quantum computing platform that allows researchers to program hybrid CPU, GPU and QPU systems. It also includes Nvidia’s cuQuantum software development kit for accelerating quantum computing workflows.
The platform is being powered by the Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchip, which combines the Nvidia Grace CPU and Hopper GPU architectures. Pawsey will be installing eight Superchips based on the Nvidia MGX modular architecture.
Nvidia claims the GH200 Superchips eliminate the need for a traditional CPU-to-GPU connection as it combines an ARM-based Nvidia Grace CPU with an Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU in the same package.
“This increases the bandwidth between GPU and CPU by seven times compared with the latest PCIe technology. It delivers up to 10 times higher performance for applications running terabytes of data, giving quantum-classical researchers unprecedented power to solve the world’s most complex problems,” Nvidia stated.
How Pawsey’s supercomputer collaboration with Nvidia advances science
According to the chip maker, Pawsey will deploy the system to run quantum workloads directly from traditional high-performance computing systems resulting in the development of hybrid algorithms. It added this will see calculations divided into classical and quantum kernels.
Using the new platform, Pawsey will study quantum machine learning, chemistry simulations, image processing for radio astronomy, financial analysis, bioinformatics and specialised quantum simulators. The first cab off the rank, though, will be various quantum variational algorithms, according to Nvidia.
“Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s research and test-bed facility is helping to advance scientific exploration for all of Australia as well as the world,” said Mark Stickells, Executive Director at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre.
“Nvidia’s CUDA Quantum platform will allow our scientists to push the boundaries of what’s possible in quantum computing research.”
It is expected that Pawsey will make the Nvidia Grace Hopper platform available to the Australian quantum community, as well as its international partners.
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