IBM, Oak Ridge and AMD launch quantum error-correction research platform
Travis Humble's Oak Ridge center joins IBM and AMD to test error correction, with DOE's 2028 quantum-computing goal in view.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: IBM Newsroom
Why it matters
Fault-tolerant quantum computing depends on classical computers decoding and acting on quantum measurements in real time. Pairing IBM's Nighthawk processors with AMD-powered high-performance computing at Oak Ridge gives researchers a shared testbed to measure which error-correction methods can scale toward the DOE's 100 logical qubit and 100,000 hard operation target by late 2028.
Travis Humble has been building Oak Ridge National Laboratory's quantum program since joining the lab in 2005, and he established its Quantum Computing User Program to give researchers access to quantum platforms. On November 5th, 2026, Humble's Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge joined IBM and AMD to unveil a co-design platform that puts quantum processors and high-performance classical computers in the same research system for quantum error correction.…
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