Atos confirms role as global leader in quantum hybridization technologies at its 8th Quantum Advisory Board

Paris, France – December 3, 2021

At the meeting of the 8th Atos Quantum Advisory Board, a team of worldwide professionals, mathematicians and physicists, authorities in their fields, Atos reaffirms its posture as a international chief in quantum computing systems. The quantum hybridization axis (convergence of substantial-general performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing) in specific positions the firm at the forefront of quantum study, converging its skills. Atos has invested, alongside with associate start off-ups Pasqal and IQM, in two main quantum hybridization assignments in France and Germany.

Held at Atos’ R&D centre, focused to analysis in quantum computing and superior-general performance computing, in Clayes-sous-Bois, in the existence of Atos’ future CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, and under the chairmanship of Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Massive Details and Cybersecurity, this assembly of the Quantum Advisory Board was an chance to review Atos’ new function and to choose inventory of long run potential customers.

Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, College of Oxford, Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and member of the Quantum Advisory Board reported “We are actually amazed by the work and the development that Atos has created above the past yr. The business can take quantum computing critically and it provides us wonderful pleasure to see it getting a single of the important gamers in the discipline. It is a organic development for Atos. As a earth leader in Large Performance Computing (HPC), Atos is in a distinctive placement to merge its existing, comprehensive, expertise in HPC with quantum know-how and consider both of those fields to new heights. We are self-assured that Atos will form the quantum landscape in decades to appear, each with research and apps that have extensive-lasting impact.”

In the discipline of quantum hybridization Atos is the only player and the company is presently enabling many programs – in the regions of chemistry, this kind of as catalysis style for nitrogen fixation, and for the optimization of intelligent grids. Atos is also involved in two additional quantum hybridization assignments, which are at the moment remaining introduced:

The European HPC-QS (Quantum Simulation) venture, which commences this December 2021, aims to make the very first European hybrid supercomputer with an built-in quantum accelerator by the finish of 2023. It is supposed to be a very first significant brick of the French quantum strategy. Atos is associated in this task together with national partners such as the CEA, GENCI, Pasqal and the Julich Supercomputing Centre. Pasqal will offer its analog quantum accelerator and Atos, with its quantum simulator, the Quantum Studying Equipment (QLM), will make sure the hybridization with the HPCs at the two datacenters at GENCI and Julich.

The Q-EXA project, element of the German Government quantum strategy, will see a consortium of associates, which includes Atos, function collectively to combine a German quantum laptop into an HPC supercomputer for the to start with time. Atos’ QLM will be instrumental in connecting the quantum pc, from get started-up IQM (also element of the Atos Scaler plan) to the Leibniz Supercomputing-LRZ centre.

The European Business for Nuclear Research (CERN), a person of the world’s premier and most highly regarded investigate centres, based mostly in Geneva, has a short while ago acquired an Atos Quantum Finding out Device (QLM) appliance and joined the Atos Consumer Club. The Atos QLM, delivered to CERN in October, will be manufactured obtainable to the CERN scientific neighborhood to guidance investigate routines in the framework of the CERN Quantum Know-how Initiative (CERN QTI), hence accelerating the investigation of quantum advantage for high-strength physics (HEP) and further than.

“Building on CERN’s exclusive skills and sturdy collaborative society, co-development endeavours are at the core of CERN QTI. As we check out the fast-evolving area of quantum technologies, access to the Atos Quantum Mastering Equipment and Atos’ expertise can participate in an significant function in our quantum developments roadmap in assist of the superior-strength physics community and beyond,” states Alberto Di Meglio, Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Technologies Initiative. “A devoted education workshop is currently being organized with Atos to examine the whole functionality and probable of the quantum equipment, as properly as its long term application for some of the CERN QTI functions.”

“Atos is the earth chief in the convergence of supercomputing and quantum computing, as proven by these two main and strategic projects we are included in in France and Germany. At a time when the French authorities is anticipated to announce its strategy for quantum computing, the sturdiness of our Quantum Board, the excellent of the operate carried out and the concrete purposes of this investigation in big assignments boost this posture,” remarks Pierre Barnabé, interim co-CEO and head of Large Data and Cybersecurity at Atos.

The Quantum Advisory Board is manufactured up of universally identified quantum physicists and contains:

• Alain Aspect, Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate College, Université Paris-Saclay and at Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• David DiVincenzo, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Institute for Quantum Data at RWTH Aachen College, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Exploration Heart
• Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, College of Oxford and Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore
• Daniel Esteve, Investigation Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics
• Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.

As a result of Atos’ bold method to foresee the long run of quantum computing and to be well prepared for the possibilities and issues that arrive with it – ‘Atos Quantum’ – Atos was the first firm to give a quantum noisy simulation module which can simulate real Qubits, the Atos QLM and to suggest Q-score, the only universal metrics to evaluate quantum performance and superiority. Atos is also the first European patent holder in quantum computing.

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Photo : from still left to proper:

• Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Significant Facts and Cybersecurity (BDS), Atos.
• Sophie Proust, CTO, Atos.
• René Martin, Head of Data encryption Enterprise Device, BDS, Atos.
• Cyril Allouche, R&D Director, Quantum Computing.
• Rodolphe Belmer, Atos’ future CEO.
• Serge Haroc
  he, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.
• Daniel Esteve, Research Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics.
• David DiVincenzo, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Investigation Centre
• Arnaud Bertrand, Director of Technique and Innovation, BDS, Atos
• Philippe Duluc, Main Technological innovation Officer, BDS, Atos

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