NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Center
Type: Research Facility Tags: NVIDIA, NVAQC, accelerated quantum computing, quantum research, GB200 NVL72, CUDA-Q, DGX Quantum Related: NVIDIA-Quantum, NVIDIA-NVQLink, CUDA-Q, CUDA-QX, NVIDIA-DGX-Quantum, NVIDIA-GB200-NVL72, NVIDIA-Blackwell-Architecture, NVIDIA-Quantum-InfiniBand Sources: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/accelerated-quantum-center/, https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-build-accelerated-quantum-computing-research-center, https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/ Last Updated: 2026-04-29
Summary
The NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Computing Research Center, also called NVAQC, is NVIDIA’s research facility for shortening the path to useful quantum computing. It integrates partner quantum hardware with NVIDIA AI supercomputing, including GB200 NVL72-class Grace Blackwell systems and the NVIDIA DGX Quantum architecture, and uses CUDA-Q to orchestrate hybrid quantum-classical workflows.
Detail
Purpose
NVAQC exists to help solve the hard integration problems between today’s QPUs and future useful quantum computers: quantum error correction, hardware simulation, realtime control, hybrid algorithm development, and coupling quantum systems to accelerated supercomputers.
Platform role
- Integrates partner quantum hardware with NVIDIA AI supercomputing.
- Public NVIDIA material describes GB200 NVL72 Grace Blackwell systems as part of the facility direction.
- Uses CUDA-Q for orchestrating quantum-classical systems.
- Connects directly to NVIDIA-DGX-Quantum architecture language and current NVIDIA-NVQLink integration direction.
- Targets QEC, hybrid application development, QPU design simulation, and AI-for-quantum research.
NVIDIA context
NVAQC is where the quantum software stack becomes a full system problem: CUDA-Q, CUDA-QX, NVIDIA-NVQLink, NVIDIA-DGX-Quantum, NVIDIA-GB200-NVL72, and NVIDIA networking all meet partner quantum hardware.
Connections
- NVIDIA-Quantum - NVAQC is a research-center component of the NVIDIA Quantum platform.
- NVIDIA-NVQLink - realtime GPU-QPU integration direction for quantum hardware.
- CUDA-Q - software orchestration layer for hybrid quantum-classical systems.
- CUDA-QX - higher-level QEC and solver libraries relevant to research workflows.
- NVIDIA-DGX-Quantum - architecture identity referenced by NVAQC materials.
- NVIDIA-GB200-NVL72 - Grace Blackwell rack-scale system used in NVAQC context.
- NVIDIA-Quantum-InfiniBand - AI/HPC networking family adjacent to GB200/NVAQC supercomputing infrastructure.
Source Excerpts
- NVIDIA’s NVAQC page describes the center as a facility for turning qubits into useful quantum computers by integrating partner quantum hardware with GB200 NVL72 systems through DGX Quantum architecture and CUDA-Q.
- NVIDIA’s 2025 announcement frames NVAQC as a Boston-based center for advancing quantum architectures and algorithms with partners and universities.