Pasqal ships 100qbit quantum computer to GENCI, CEA
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French quantum computer developer Pasqal has shipped a 100qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) to the GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif) and CEA computing centre in France.
This is the first QPU to be delivered to a third party by Pasqal and a significant milestone in the High-Performance Computer and Quantum Simulator hybrid (HPCQS) project. Pasqal’s 100qubit neutral atom QPU will be integrated with GENCI’s supercomputer, Joliot-Curie, which is hosted and operated by CEA at TGCC in a hybrid system.
This follows the activation of a hybrid quantum supercomputer system at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Germany with IQM.
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Another QPU will also be installed in Germany at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and coupled with the JURECA supercomputer. Both systems will form the embryo of a pan European hybrid HPC + quantum computing infrastructure soon to be completed by other various European quantum computing technologies funded by EuroHPC JU and Member States. This will be open to all European users to start exploring concretely the potential of quantum computing on their applications.
The French hybrid quantum computer project is co-funded by the European HPC Joint Undertaking, along with GENCI as part of the French Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative. The integration of the analog quantum computers with supercomputers will allow European and French researchers to work on hybrid use cases and to experiment on actual hardware.
Analog quantum computing, a product of this HPC-QC integration, is particularly suitable to promote optimization workloads and the simulation of physical systems. Such optimization has numerous practical applications in the banking industry, logistics, transportation, energy grid management, and many others.
“This delivery milestone marks a major first in France towards the commissioning of a cold atom quantum machine soon hybridized with our supercomputer, in the service of science, knowledge and innovation. This first also reflects a strong commitment on the part of France and Europe, through EuroHPC and the HPCQS project, to make quantum technologies a strategic and sovereign tool,” said Philippe Lavocat, CEO of GENCI,
“This delivery will allow HPC and quantum computing communities to complete their work with emulators with real computations on real hardware. All our users are eager to use Pasqal’s Orion system and to demonstrate all the results they will get from it,” said Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, programme director at CEA and coordinator of the France Hybrid HPC Quantum Initiative (HQI).
“Delivering our first QPU to CEA is a landmark that underscores our commitment to accelerating the integration of quantum computing into mainstream technology sectors. By harnessing the synergies between quantum computing and classical HPC environments, we are paving the way for breakthroughs that were previously beyond reach. This achievement also marks the historic debut of Pasqal’s quantum computing technology in the hands of a customer, which speaks to the strength and dedication of our team,” said Pasqal’s co-founder and CEO, Georges-Olivier Reymond.
CEA and Pasqal have worked with Eviden to integrate the QPU with the HQI platform. The objective of this integration is to allow end-users to program their hybrid code and to send it to Joliot-Curie, which will then offload the quantum code to the Pasqal system via the Eviden Qaptiva software.
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