Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), IBM, and AMD have launched a co-design platform for quantum error correction to help researchers define and accelerate the classical and quantum workflows for scientifically relevant quantum computing.

A co-design platform for quantum error correction This platform builds on IBM and AMD's existing collaboration, including using AMD GPUs to accelerate sample-based quantum diagonalization and demonstrating efficient quantum error decoding on AMD hardware.

How the co-design platform will advance quantum computing research Qubits, the fundamental units of quantum computation, make errors.

The algorithms that will make quantum computing scientifically useful need substantial classical computing resources working in step with quantum processors.

All this work will inform the development of IBM Quantum Starling, the fault-tolerant quantum computer IBM plans to deliver by 2029.