IBM Unrolls Blueprint For Quantum-Classical HPC Computing
The Next Platform, Monday, March 16th, 2026
When the commercial, scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing era really begins, when it becomes widely available, it will - least at the start - be a cloud service that is integrated with classical, powerful supercomputers, accelerator-like nodes that will run alongside with CPUs and GPUs and take on the workloads that are too powerful for their classical kin.
Increasingly, major players in high-end computing as well as smaller vendor and startups are beginning to put pieces in place that will allow such integrated systems to operate smoothly. As we noted last year, Nvidia, which supplies much of the fuel for the still-expanding AI market, has begun equipping its offerings with capabilities to link HPC with quantum. For example, NVQLink is a high-speed interconnect for linking classical supercomputers to quantum systems, while CUDA-Q is Nvidia's quantum-classical platform.