NVIDIA, Rolls-Royce and Classiq Announce Quantum Computing Breakthrough

for Computational Fluid Dynamics in Jet Engines

Hey Everyone,

I’m a huge fan of what the Israeli startup Classiq will become. Along with Sandbox AQ they rank right up there for me. Nvidia is coming off peak euphoria in the stock market. NVDA 0.00%↑ It’s up 25% after hours which is like going up $200 Billion in market cap in a single day. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company was seeing “surging demand” for its data center products as A.I. hype reaches bull-market territory.

So I was rather amused to see this collab between Nvidia, Rolls-Royce and Classiq. Let’s get into it.

NVIDIA, Rolls-Royce and Classiq, a quantum software company, announced on May 21st, 2023 a quantum computing breakthrough aimed at bringing ever-increasing efficiency to jet engines.

Using NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform, the companies have designed and simulated the world’s largest quantum computing circuit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) — a circuit that measures 10 million layers deep with 39 qubits.

I’m extremely bullish on the future of aerospace, Space-tech and how they intersect with various aspects of Quantum tech and eventually, quantum computing. Not so far from Quantum computing, space-tech and A.I. intersecting.

For a Quantum Startup like Classiq, B2B partnerships are the lifeblood of their R&D and product-market fit testing. Rolls-Royce plans to use the new circuit on its journey to quantum advantage in CFD for modeling the performance of jet engine designs in simulations that use both classical and quantum computing methods.

Classiq wants to provide a revolutionary Quantum Algorithm Design software platform for the automated synthesis of quantum circuits. Their CEO is Nir Minerbi. Here is their leadership team:

Classiq has a high ratio of PhDs to team members.

Hybrid Breakthrough

“Designing jet engines, which are one of the most complicated devices on earth, is expensive and computationally challenging,” said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s quantum computing platform gives Rolls-Royce a potential path to tackle these problems head-on while accelerating its research and future development of more efficient jet engines.”

“Applying both classical and quantum computing methods directly to the challenge of designing jet engines will help us accelerate our processes and perform more sophisticated calculations,” said Leigh Lapworth, computational science fellow at Rolls-Royce.