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

Paris, France – December 3, 2021

At the assembly of the 8th Atos Quantum Advisory Board, a team of international specialists, mathematicians and physicists, authorities in their fields, Atos reaffirms its position as a world wide chief in quantum computing technologies. The quantum hybridization axis (convergence of significant-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing) in particular positions the organization at the forefront of quantum analysis, converging its skills. Atos has invested, along with companion start out-ups Pasqal and IQM, in two important quantum hybridization projects in France and Germany.

Held at Atos’ R&D centre, dedicated to analysis in quantum computing and significant-performance computing, in Clayes-sous-Bois, in the presence of Atos’ up coming CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, and less than the chairmanship of Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Big Knowledge and Cybersecurity, this assembly of the Quantum Advisory Board was an opportunity to overview Atos’ modern function and to choose stock of potential prospective customers.

Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore and member of the Quantum Advisory Board stated “We are truly amazed by the function and the progress that Atos has designed around the earlier calendar year. The organization will take quantum computing significantly and it offers us wonderful satisfaction to see it getting to be 1 of the crucial gamers in the field. It is a pure development for Atos. As a globe chief in Superior Functionality Computing (HPC), Atos is in a one of a kind position to incorporate its present, in depth, skills in HPC with quantum engineering and choose both equally fields to new heights. We are confident that Atos will condition the quantum landscape in a long time to appear, both equally with analysis and purposes that have long-lasting impression.”

In the field of quantum hybridization Atos is the only participant and the organization is now enabling a number of purposes – in the locations of chemistry, these types of as catalysis structure for nitrogen fixation, and for the optimization of good grids. Atos is also associated in two further quantum hybridization projects, which are at the moment being launched:

The European HPC-QS (Quantum Simulation) venture, which starts this December 2021, aims to make the initially European hybrid supercomputer with an integrated quantum accelerator by the conclusion of 2023. It is intended to be a initially important brick of the French quantum plan. Atos is associated in this venture together with countrywide partners including the CEA, GENCI, Pasqal and the Julich Supercomputing Centre. Pasqal will give its analog quantum accelerator and Atos, with its quantum simulator, the Quantum Understanding Device (QLM), will ensure the hybridization with the HPCs at the two datacenters at GENCI and Julich.

The Q-EXA venture, aspect of the German Govt quantum plan, will see a consortium of partners, including Atos, function collectively to combine a German quantum personal computer into an HPC supercomputer for the initially time. Atos’ QLM will be instrumental in connecting the quantum personal computer, from start out-up IQM (also aspect of the Atos Scaler program) to the Leibniz Supercomputing-LRZ centre.

The European Corporation for Nuclear Investigate (CERN), 1 of the world’s premier and most highly regarded analysis centres, centered in Geneva, has a short while ago acquired an Atos Quantum Understanding Device (QLM) equipment and joined the Atos User Club. The Atos QLM, sent to CERN in October, will be designed obtainable to the CERN scientific neighborhood to aid analysis functions in the framework of the CERN Quantum Engineering Initiative (CERN QTI), therefore accelerating the investigation of quantum gain for significant-power physics (HEP) and past.

“Building on CERN’s one of a kind skills and robust collaborative society, co-development efforts are at the main of CERN QTI. As we discover the rapid-evolving field of quantum technologies, access to the Atos Quantum Understanding Device and Atos’ skills can play an critical function in our quantum developments roadmap in aid of the significant-power physics neighborhood and past,” claims Alberto Di Meglio, Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Engineering Initiative. “A dedicated instruction workshop is being organized with Atos to examine the total features and potential of the quantum equipment, as effectively as its potential application for some of the CERN QTI functions.”

“Atos is the globe chief in the convergence of supercomputing and quantum computing, as proven by these two important and strategic projects we are associated in in France and Germany. At a time when the French authorities is envisioned to announce its plan for quantum computing, the longevity of our Quantum Board, the good quality of the function carried out and the concrete purposes of this analysis in important projects reinforce this position,” responses Pierre Barnabé, interim co-CEO and head of Big Knowledge and Cybersecurity at Atos.

The Quantum Advisory Board is designed up of universally acknowledged quantum physicists and consists of:

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

As a outcome of Atos’ bold program to foresee the potential of quantum computing and to be ready for the options and problems that appear with it – ‘Atos Quantum’ – Atos was the initially corporation to provide a quantum noisy simulation module which can simulate actual Qubits, the Atos QLM and to suggest Q-score, the only universal metrics to assess quantum performance and superiority. Atos is also the initially European patent holder in quantum computing.

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Image : from still left to right:

• Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Big Knowledge and Cybersecurity (BDS), Atos.
• Sophie Proust, CTO, Atos.
• René Martin, Head of Knowledge encryption Organization Unit, BDS, Atos.
• Cyril Allouche, R&D Director, Quantum Computing.
• Rodolphe Belmer, Atos’ up coming CEO.
• Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.
• Daniel Esteve, Investigate Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics.
• David DiVincenzo, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Investigate Centre
• Arnaud Bertrand, Director of Tactic and Innovation, BDS, Atos
• Philippe Duluc, Chief Engineering Officer, BDS, Atos

About Atos

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