India, Sept. 15 -- NVIDIA has expanded its open-source CUDA-Q platform. The company has added CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer designed to help researchers develop and test applications for fault-tolerant quantum systems using logical qubits.

The company has also added QUOPS, an open benchmark from Sandia National Laboratories designed to measure progress toward practical, fault-tolerant quantum computing.

This is less about another software feature and more about where quantum computing development is heading. Researchers need tools that let them evaluate the whole system rather than optimise individual pieces in isolation.

Fault-tolerant quantum computing relies on logical qubits to deal with errors in physical qubits. The aim ...