The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has achieved a major advancement for the UAE’s quantum ecosystem by completing a technical integration between its open-source quantum middleware, Qibo, and the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform.
This development boosts TII’s capabilities in hybrid quantum-classical computing, a rapidly expanding field as quantum hardware becomes increasingly intertwined with traditional systems to deliver real-world computational value.
By linking Qibo – TII’s open-source framework used for simulating, controlling, and calibrating quantum circuits – with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q toolkit, which supports the creation of applications spanning both quantum and classical processing, TII researchers can now design, evaluate, and refine quantum workflows more effectively across a variety of architecture types. This allows them to better assess how the two computational paradigms can work together to address complex challenges with greater efficiency.
The integration provides compatibility between Qibo and CUDA-Q’s Quake Multi-Level Intermediate Representation dialect. New exporter and importer tools released in Qibo v0.2.22 enable seamless communication across software layers, resulting in smoother experimentation and progress throughout quantum computing development stacks.
As a result, TII is now positioned to begin evaluating the potential benefits of
NVIDIA NVQLink, NVIDIA’s high-speed QPU-GPU interconnect, enabling low latency and high throughput quantum-classical workloads. This will allow for performance assessments across quantum algorithms, error correction routines, and calibration tools on TII’s hybrid computing infrastructure – helping to identify where tighter coupling between quantum and classical hardware can offer speed or accuracy improvements, and guiding future system design choices.
“Integrating NVIDIA CUDA-Q into TII’s Qibo marks a pivotal moment for our software strategy,” said Dr. Leandro Aolita, Chief Researcher of TII’s Quantum Research Centre. “This advancement not only solidifies Qibo’s position as a powerful, flexible quantum middleware but also opens new opportunities to improve performance across different hardware platforms – supporting deeper collaboration with NVIDIA and aligning with the UAE’s ambition to be at the forefront of quantum technology.”
TII plans to extend this work by supporting Qibo as a target directly within the CUDA-Q framework, which will further streamline access to their quantum computing hardware platforms and reinforce interoperability.
“Developing a high-performance integration of quantum processors with GPU supercomputers is a critical remaining step for deploying useful quantum applications, said Sam Stanwyck, Group Product Manager for quantum computing at NVIDIA, “TII’s work with Qibo and CUDA-Q will be transformative in providing researchers and developers easy access to the hybrid resources they need to make quantum computing’s next breakthroughs.”
This milestone reflects TII’s commitment to advancing open, flexible quantum software tools and supporting the development of scalable quantum-classical computing systems, contributing to the UAE’s growing role in global quantum innovation.
