Jülich Supercomputing Centre

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is a research infrastructure institute within Forschungszentrum Jülich that operates large-scale supercomputers such as JUWELS and JURECA for European scientists. Through its JUNIQ facility it gives external users access to quantum computers—including D-Wave annealing systems and IBM gate-based superconducting processors—alongside classical emulation and hybrid HPC-quantum integration work. It is a publicly funded user facility rather than a quantum hardware developer, and it participates in European projects such as the OpenSuperQ and HPCQS initiatives.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 20 October 2026

Headquarters: Jülich, Germany
Status: Private

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Coverage

Quantum Computing Report19 October 2026

NVIDIA and Jülich Run 104-Qubit Magic State Cultivation Simulation on JUPITER Supercomputer

NVIDIA and Jülich Supercomputing Centre simulated a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computing experiment on the JUPITER exascale supercomputer, using 8,192 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips. The simulation validated a magic state cultivation protocol that could reduce the number of physical qubits needed for fault tolerance. The work is described in an NVIDIA technical report.

OutlookPlausible

Magic state cultivation validated by this simulation could be adopted in near-term error-corrected quantum processors, lowering physical qubit overhead and bringing 100-logical-qubit demonstrations within reach in the next two years.

error correction algorithms softwareJülich Supercomputing CentreNVIDIA

Quantum Zeitgeist19 October 2026

NVIDIA’s Record simulation of a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer

NVIDIA researchers simulated a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum processor on JUPITER, the European supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The run is the largest full simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum computer reported so far. The work also supports a resource-reduction approach that uses roughly 90% fewer physical qubits than earlier methods.

OutlookPlausible

This could let quantum hardware teams use large-scale classical simulation to compare fault-tolerant architectures and error-correction codes before building hardware, accelerating the path to early logical qubits.

error correction algorithms softwareJülich Supercomputing CentreNVIDIA