IBM announced the completion of its expansion of the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.
IBM’s Quantum Data Center in New York operates the highest number of available utility-scale quantum computers at a single location in the world. These systems are a part of the more than a dozen quantum computers offered to global clients via the IBM cloud.
IBM has deployed Quantum Heron processor in IBM’s Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie.
IBM’s Heron-based system offers up to a 16-fold improvement in performance and a 25-fold increase in speed over previous IBM quantum computers as they were measured two years ago. In addition to the two IBM Heron-based computers now available, the additional systems within the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie are now all capable of operating at the level of utility-scale.
IBM’s users are now tapping the improved performance capabilities of IBM Heron and IBM utility-scale systems to build quantum algorithms for their industries with Qiskit, IBM’s quantum software stack, which has been built to simplify programming quantum computers.
Jay Gambetta, Vice President at IBM Quantum, said: “We will work with our network of more than 250 organizations to accelerate the pace of discovery in quantum computing.”
The Poughkeepsie data center will serve as a global hub for IBM’s Quantum Network as the company extends its worldwide fleet of systems, including the second IBM Quantum Data Center which will soon open in Ehningen, Germany.
