Nvidia simulates 104 qubits on JUPITER with 90% fewer qubits

Nvidia researchers simulated a 104-qubit quantum system on JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer at Germany's Jülich Supercomputing Centre, using magic state cultivation with realistic hardware noise. The technique reportedly cuts physical qubit requirements by 90%, potentially easing the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing.

• Simulation ran on 8,192 GH200 GPUs of the JUPITER supercomputer
• Magic state cultivation reduces physical qubit needs by 90%
• Earlier Jülich work simulated 50 qubits under ideal conditions
• Result is a classical simulation, not a test on quantum hardware