TII Demonstrates Large-Scale Quantum Annealing Simulations Reaching Up to 500,000 Qubits with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

Summary

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has demonstrated large-scale simulations of the adiabatic quantum annealing (QA) algorithm for problem instances involving up to 500,000 qubits. TII's simulator achieved solution quality exceeding that of all solvers evaluated from the MQLib repository, a library for combinatorial optimization benchmarking. The emulator is accessible to external users via an experimental cloud platform hosted at https://q-inspired.tii.ae. Why it matters: This collaboration expands the range of complex optimization problems that can be investigated using quantum-inspired approaches, beyond those currently achievable with near-term quantum hardware.