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Quantum Computing Development

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP · 2026-09-09 · Importance 17 · Surprise 24

IBM, Cleveland Clinic and Japan’s RIKEN advanced to the finals of the 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for work modeling a 12,635-atom protein. The project used quantum and classical computing together rather than quantum hardware alone. The result demonstrates IBM’s quantum-centric supercomputing positioning for life-sciences research and other complex scientific workloads.

Key facts

• A joint research team including IBM modeled a 12,635-atom protein, the largest-known to be simulated using quantum computers. source