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Dammam, October 14, 2025, SPA — Delivering energy to the world demands extraordinary capabilities, and Aramco, as a leading global energy powerhouse, takes pride in carrying the beacon of technological innovation to help advance the world’s potential.
\u00a0 \u00a0Aramco’s Upstream is embarking on a digital transformation journey aimed at accelerating technological breakthroughs in the quest for energy. Inspired by the transformative Dammam 7 story \u2014 Saudi Arabia’s first commercial oil well \u2014 and its namesake Dammam-7 Supercomputer \u2014 Aramco’s most powerful supercomputer \u2014 the Upstream Digital Center (UDC), the digital arm of Aramco’s Upstream segment, is ushering in a new era with quantum computing capabilities.
\u00a0 \u00a0Using the Dammam-7 Supercomputer accelerated by NVIDIA graphical processing units (GPUs), Aramco has demonstrated one of the largest quantum computing emulators in the region, called Dammam-7Q (DMM7Q), in an ambitious collaborative effort with NVIDIA.
\u00a0 \u00a0Quantum computing promises to transform how advanced computing can tackle the most complex problems facing a host of industries, including energy. Exploring new reserves requires sophisticated computational techniques, where geoscientists must draw on increasing computing power to process peta-scale seismic data and deliver accurate subsurface images.
\u00a0 \u00a0Driven by the Upstream Digital Transformation, UDC aims to innovate at the frontier with quantum computing, through collaboration with NVIDIA, delivering innovations to harness the power of the hybrid supercomputers of tomorrow, said UDC Vice President Ashraf Al-Tahini.
\u00a0 \u00a0In recent work with NVIDIA, Aramco has explored the utilization of an algorithm called the quantum Hadamard edge detection, specifically designed to take advantage of tomorrow\u2019s quantum processors to dramatically enhance details in subsurface images.
\u00a0 \u00a0The future of supercomputing is hybrid, where various architectures work simultaneously to expand the algorithms and applications that can be tackled by harnessing the power of advanced computing.
\u00a0 \u00a0Senior Director of CAE, Quantum and CUDA-X at NVIDIA Tim Costa said quantum algorithms offer huge promise, but their development and deployment require coordinating the state of the art in both quantum and conventional supercomputing.
\u00a0 \u00a0To accelerate quantum computing adoption, Aramco innovators are drawing on the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform to run GPU-accelerated emulations of future quantum computing hardware, allowing them to develop and assess quantum algorithms that can be used for geosciences.
\u00a0 \u00a0Furthermore, CUDA-Q has enabled Aramco to explore how actual quantum algorithms will run on hybrid systems that leverage both conventional processors like CPUs and GPUs alongside quantum hardware, simplifying the distribution of computational tasks between these different coprocessors.
\u00a0 \u00a0Using CUDA-Q, Aramco has been able to emulate up to 30 qubits per GPU, scaling to more qubits utilizing multiple GPUs in the Dammam-7 Supercomputer to detect 3D seismic faults on a full 3D seismic dataset. This success delivered a pioneering quantum-based algorithm, marking a new frontier for upstream computing.
\u00a0 \u00a0Costa said the collaboration with Aramco demonstrates how transformative applications can be discovered when quantum researchers have the right platform for accessing accelerated computing.
\u00a0 \u00a0This work marks a collaboration between Aramco and NVIDIA to explore the hybrid quantum-classical supercomputers of tomorrow.
\u00a0 \u00a0— SPA
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