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 eighth Atos Quantum Advisory Board, a team of worldwide industry experts, mathematicians and physicists, authorities in their fields, Atos reaffirms its placement as a world-wide leader in quantum computing systems. The quantum hybridization axis (convergence of significant-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing) in distinct positions the corporation at the forefront of quantum investigate, converging its know-how. Atos has invested, alongside with companion start out-ups Pasqal and IQM, in two significant quantum hybridization initiatives in France and Germany.

Held at Atos’ R&D centre, devoted to investigate in quantum computing and significant-performance computing, in Clayes-sous-Bois, in the presence of Atos’ future CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, and beneath the chairmanship of Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Massive Facts and Cybersecurity, this assembly of the Quantum Advisory Board was an opportunity to review Atos’ new do the job and to get inventory of foreseeable future potential clients.

Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, College of Oxford, Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Systems in Singapore and member of the Quantum Advisory Board said “We are genuinely impressed by the do the job and the development that Atos has designed above the earlier 12 months. The corporation normally takes quantum computing significantly and it gives us excellent satisfaction to see it getting a single of the vital gamers in the area. It is a organic progression for Atos. As a world leader in Significant Overall performance Computing (HPC), Atos is in a exceptional placement to blend its present, considerable, know-how in HPC with quantum technologies and get both of those fields to new heights. We are confident that Atos will shape the quantum landscape in years to occur, both of those with investigate and programs that have extended-long lasting affect.”

In the area of quantum hybridization Atos is the only participant and the corporation is previously enabling quite a few programs – in the areas of chemistry, such as catalysis structure for nitrogen fixation, and for the optimization of sensible grids. Atos is also included in two further quantum hybridization initiatives, which are currently becoming launched:

The European HPC-QS (Quantum Simulation) project, which starts off this December 2021, aims to establish the initially European hybrid supercomputer with an integrated quantum accelerator by the conclude of 2023. It is meant to be a initially significant brick of the French quantum approach. Atos is included in this project along with national partners such as the CEA, GENCI, Pasqal and the Julich Supercomputing Centre. Pasqal will give its analog quantum accelerator and Atos, with its quantum simulator, the Quantum Discovering Machine (QLM), will be certain the hybridization with the HPCs at the two datacenters at GENCI and Julich.

The Q-EXA project, portion of the German Federal government quantum approach, will see a consortium of partners, such as Atos, do the job collectively to combine a German quantum laptop or computer into an HPC supercomputer for the initially time. Atos’ QLM will be instrumental in connecting the quantum laptop or computer, from start out-up IQM (also portion of the Atos Scaler method) to the Leibniz Supercomputing-LRZ centre.

The European Group for Nuclear Study (CERN), a single of the world’s major and most highly regarded investigate centres, based in Geneva, has not too long ago acquired an Atos Quantum Discovering Machine (QLM) appliance and joined the Atos User Club. The Atos QLM, delivered to CERN in October, will be designed offered to the CERN scientific local community to aid investigate functions in the framework of the CERN Quantum Technologies Initiative (CERN QTI), as a result accelerating the investigation of quantum edge for significant-strength physics (HEP) and outside of.

“Building on CERN’s exceptional know-how and sturdy collaborative society, co-growth initiatives are at the core of CERN QTI. As we check out the speedy-evolving area of quantum systems, accessibility to the Atos Quantum Discovering Machine and Atos’ know-how can enjoy an crucial purpose in our quantum developments roadmap in aid of the significant-strength physics local community and outside of,” states Alberto Di Meglio, Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Technologies Initiative. “A devoted instruction workshop is becoming structured with Atos to investigate the entire functionality and prospective of the quantum appliance, as perfectly as its foreseeable future software for some of the CERN QTI functions.”

“Atos is the world leader in the convergence of supercomputing and quantum computing, as demonstrated by these two significant and strategic initiatives we are included in in France and Germany. At a time when the French governing administration is predicted to announce its approach for quantum computing, the sturdiness of our Quantum Board, the excellent of the do the job carried out and the concrete programs of this investigate in significant initiatives boost this placement,” responses Pierre Barnabé, interim co-CEO and head of Massive Facts and Cybersecurity at Atos.

The Quantum Advisory Board is designed up of universally recognized quantum physicists and includes:

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

As a outcome of Atos’ ambitious method to foresee the foreseeable future of quantum computing and to be ready for the prospects and troubles that occur with it – ‘Atos Quantum’ – Atos was the initially firm to present a quantum noisy simulation module which can simulate genuine Qubits, the Atos QLM and to propose 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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Picture : from left to suitable:

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

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