Accelerating quantum workflows with Xanadu's PennyLane and AMD

December 16, 2025

Xanadu and AMD have partnered to unleash the full potential of PennyLane on AMD hardware. Scale your quantum research effortlessly — from the AMD Developer Cloud to exascale supercomputers like Frontier.

By Josh Izaac

Xanadu's photonic hardware is advancing rapidly. This year alone, we announced Aurora, the first scalable networked and modular photonic quantum computer, as well as a breakthrough demonstration of GKP qubits on an integrated photonic chip.

In the meantime, high-performance simulation remains the engine of quantum algorithm development. To push the boundaries of research today, developers need simulators capable of running large-scale workflows on state-of-the-art supercomputers.

At Xanadu, we are committed to enabling you to scale up your quantum research with PennyLane. Working together with AMD, we have ensured PennyLane's Lightning simulators are easy to use and provide maximal performance when used with AMD GPUs — whether you are running simulations on your laptop, the AMD Developer Cloud or exascale systems such as ORNL's Frontier or EuroHPC's LUMI.

Read our latest PennyLane blog post to learn more about Lightning-AMDGPU — binaries of our existing Lightning simulator precompiled specifically for AMD GPUs. See how easy it is to get Lightning up and running on Frontier, and parallelize your workflows over thousands of GPUs.

Then, hop on over to AMD Developer Central and learn how you can fast-track quantum simulation with Lightning on the AMD Developer Cloud, including easy-to-follow instructions to get up and running.

Whether you are prototyping on a personal workstation, testing an instance on the Developer Cloud, or running massive simulations on the world's flagship supercomputers, PennyLane is ready to unlock the full potential of AMD hardware.

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Published on December 16, 2025