Performance — PennyLane

Better performance, faster research.¶

PennyLane works with all the latest CPU and GPU architectures, and is optimized for integration with high performance computing clusters, so you can get your research results faster.

Explore our simulators

LIGHTNING-GPU MEETS CATALYST¶

PennyLane’s Lightning-GPU simulator device is now integrated with Catalyst, enabling high-performance quantum simulations on NVIDIA GPUs.

Read the demo Visit the Lightning-GPU documentation

Research and partnerships

PennyLane's high performance lightning simulator works with and directly targets AMD's ROCm platform.

Learn how NVIDIA works with PennyLane to enable GPU simulations at scale.

Pawsey and Xanadu are working together to integrate PennyLane, and provide state-of-the-art hybrid compute.

Faster than lightning¶

Lightning is a high-performance modern C++ simulator designed for all devices, both great (supercomputers) and small (laptops). Lightning comes included with PennyLane, and supports a wide range of architectures — including x86 and ARM — as well as features such as efficient computation of quantum gradients.

See demos

GPU-enabled¶

Need more oomph? Take advantage of GPU acceleration with lightning.gpu for NVIDIA CUDA platforms, and lightning.kokkos for AMD ROCm platforms. Built on top of the best tooling for each device, allowing users to compute quantum gradients over multiple GPUs with native accelerator device execution models.

lightning.gpu lightning.kokkos

Just-in-time compilation with Catalyst¶

A complete rethinking of a quantum execution pipeline, Catalyst enables you to write hybrid quantum-classical programs that are automatically compiled for execution on CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs — leading to significant performance improvements, and the ability to unlock new ways of programming quantum computers.

Learn more

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