Atos and SENAI CIMATEC launch Center of Excellence in Quantum Computing in Brazil

Salvador (Brazil) and Paris (France), 5 May 2021

Atos and SENAI CIMATEC, one particular of Brazil’s foremost training, research and innovation institutes, announce Brazil’s initially Centre of Excellence in Quantum Computing devoted to the enterprise sector.

Situated in Salvador, Bahia, the Latin The usa Quantum Computing Centre (LAQCC) aims to boost the adoption of quantum systems, deliver education to make a local quantum computing workforce and persuade scientific research in the most assorted areas, these as chemistry and biology. The LAQCC will permit enterprise buyers to make technological roadmaps and conduct influence experiments, algorithm investigations and used research jobs.

“SENAI CIMATEC will be the initially establishment targeted on Quantum Computing Technological know-how – QCT in Bahia and one particular of the handful of nationwide. Our partnership with Atos positions us as a new participant in the scientific and technological improvement of the disruptive branch of Quantum Computing”, says the director of Technological know-how and Innovation at SENAI CIMATEC, Leone Peter Andrade.

The Centre of Excellence will host Brazil’s initially Atos Quantum Learning Equipment (Atos QLM), the world’s most impressive quantum simulator. Named CIMATEC KUATOMU, the Atos QLM will leverage classic supercomputing hardware to simulate quantum programs and algorithms of up to 35 qubits. The Centre will concentrate on the exploration of the various programs of quantum computing and its integration with Significant Effectiveness Computing (HPC systems), in line with Atos’ ambition to launch a quantum accelerator by 2023.

With this infrastructure, SENAI CIMATEC will assist buyers harness the ability of supercomputing and quantum computing to deliver breakthroughs in areas that deal with massive volumes of information, these as drugs, meteorology, geology, physics and oil and gasoline.

“Quantum computing is attaining traction in Brazil, wherever it is viewed as a way to promote scientific research and entrepreneurship. We hope that the infrastructure and services offered by our new Centre of Excellence will empower the Brazilian quantum ecosystem to develop and put together for the quantum era. It is also a testomony to Atos’ determination to democratizing access to systems that guarantee to deliver significant advancements in a vast variety of fields in the close to future”, says Luis Casuscelli, Director of Big Knowledge and Safety at Atos South The usa.

Since its launch in 2017, the Atos Quantum Learning Equipment (Atos QLM) has been used in various countries around the globe which includes Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, the British isles and the United States, empowering significant research applications in various sectors like market or electrical power. Atos also just lately released “Q-score”, the initially common quantum metrics, applicable to all programmable quantum processors, actions a quantum system’s performance at managing genuine-life troubles, relatively than simply just measuring its theoretical general performance.

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