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QPU (plural QPUs)

  1. (quantum computing) Initialism of quantum processing unit.
    • 2017 March 17, Keith A. Britt, Travis S. Humble, “High-Performance Computing with Quantum Processing Units”, in ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems[1], volume 13, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 39:1–39:13:
      We find that the performance of both approaches is likely to depend on the quantum interconnect that serves to entangle multiple QPUs.