The NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance is a highly performant multi-GPU multi-node solution for quantum circuit simulation. It contains NVIDIA’s cuStateVec and cuTensorNet libraries which optimize state vector and tensor network simulation, respectively. The cuTensorNet library functionality is accessible through Python for Tensor Network operations. With the cuStateVec libraries, NVIDIA provides the following simulators:

• IBM’s Qiskit Aer frontend via cusvaer, NVIDIA’s distributed state vector backend solver.
• Multi-GPU-optimized Google Cirq frontend via qsim, Google’s state vector simulator.

NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance VMI includes:

• Ubuntu Server 20.04
• NVIDIA Driver
• NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance Docker Container
• Docker-ce
• NVIDIA Container Toolkit
• Azure CLI, NGC CLI
• Miniconda, JupyterLab, Git

For information on documentation and release notes please check:

• NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance Home Page
• Documentation
• Samples and Support