Pasqal Reaches Agreement to Provide Two 100 Qubit Quantum Simulators to the European HPCQS Project

HPCQS is a European consortium funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) to integrate two 100 qubit quantum simulators to two existing European Tier-0 supercomputers and provide cloud access to public and private European users. The HPCQS project is lasting four years, has a 12 million Euro ($12.9M USD) budget with 15 partners in six countries. Pasqal has been chosen to provide two of their 100 qubit, neutral atom base Fresnel quantum simulators at the Joliot –Curie of GENCI, operated at CEA/TGCC, and the JUWELS modular supercomputer at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). The Fresnel processors will be used in a hybrid classica/quantum configuration with supercomputers to act as a quantum accelerator for specific workloads in optimization, quantum chemistry and machine learning. On-site installation of the Fresnel processors at the two sites is scheduled for the second half of 2013, but in the meantime HPCQS users will have cloud access to the machine located in Pasqal's facilities. Additional information about this is available in a news release provided by Pasqal that can be accessed here.

May 30, 2022