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cuQuantum Appliance
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Welcome to the cuQuantum Appliance documentation!

**NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance** is a highly performant multi-GPU solution for quantum circuit simulation.
It contains NVIDIA's :doc:`cuStateVec <../custatevec/index>` and :doc:`cuTensorNet <../cutensornet/index>` libraries
which optimize state vector and tensor network simulation, respectively. :doc:`cuQuantum Python <../python/index>`
is also installed, offering not only Python bindings for both libraries but also a high-level, pythonic interface for
cuTensorNet.

With the cuStateVec library, NVIDIA provides the following simulators:

   * IBM's `Qiskit Aer <https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-aer>`_ frontend via :doc:`cusvaer <./cusvaer>`, NVIDIA's distributed state vector backend solver.
   * An optimized multi-GPU Google `Cirq <https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq>`_ frontend via `qsim <https://github.com/quantumlib/qsim>`_, Google's state vector simulator.

**Available** at https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/cuquantum-appliance.

The cuQuantum Appliance is released under the :ref:`cuquantum-license` license.

.. toctree::
   :caption: Contents
   :maxdepth: 2

   Overview <overview.md>
   release-notes
   cirq
   qiskit
   cusvaer
   acknowledgements