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

Paris, France – December 3, 2021

At the conference of the eighth Atos Quantum Advisory Board, a group of global professionals, mathematicians and physicists, authorities in their fields, Atos reaffirms its place as a international leader in quantum computing systems. The quantum hybridization axis (convergence of large-functionality computing (HPC) and quantum computing) in distinct positions the business at the forefront of quantum investigation, converging its skills. Atos has invested, along with spouse begin-ups Pasqal and IQM, in two big quantum hybridization jobs in France and Germany.

Held at Atos’ R&D centre, dedicated to investigation in quantum computing and large-functionality computing, in Clayes-sous-Bois, in the existence of Atos’ future CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, and underneath the chairmanship of Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Significant Knowledge and Cybersecurity, this conference of the Quantum Advisory Board was an prospect to overview Atos’ recent do the job and to take stock of foreseeable future potential customers.

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 stated “We are really impressed by the do the job and the progress that Atos has designed over the previous yr. The business takes quantum computing significantly and it provides us good satisfaction to see it turning out to be just one of the important gamers in the field. It is a normal progression for Atos. As a entire world leader in Significant Performance Computing (HPC), Atos is in a distinctive place to blend its current, comprehensive, skills in HPC with quantum technological know-how and take each fields to new heights. We are self-assured that Atos will shape the quantum landscape in decades to occur, each with investigation and apps that have extended-long lasting influence.”

In the field of quantum hybridization Atos is the only player and the business is already enabling many apps – in the areas of chemistry, these types of as catalysis design and style for nitrogen fixation, and for the optimization of sensible grids. Atos is also associated in two extra quantum hybridization jobs, which are now being released:

The European HPC-QS (Quantum Simulation) challenge, which begins this December 2021, aims to construct the very first European hybrid supercomputer with an integrated quantum accelerator by the end of 2023. It is supposed to be a very first big brick of the French quantum plan. Atos is associated in this challenge along with countrywide associates like the CEA, GENCI, Pasqal and the Julich Supercomputing Centre. Pasqal will supply its analog quantum accelerator and Atos, with its quantum simulator, the Quantum Finding out Machine (QLM), will guarantee the hybridization with the HPCs at the two datacenters at GENCI and Julich.

The Q-EXA challenge, component of the German Govt quantum plan, will see a consortium of associates, like Atos, do the job jointly to combine a German quantum laptop or computer into an HPC supercomputer for the very first time. Atos’ QLM will be instrumental in connecting the quantum laptop or computer, from begin-up IQM (also component of the Atos Scaler application) to the Leibniz Supercomputing-LRZ centre.

The European Business for Nuclear Investigate (CERN), just one of the world’s greatest and most highly regarded investigation centres, dependent in Geneva, has just lately obtained an Atos Quantum Finding out Machine (QLM) appliance and joined the Atos Consumer Club. The Atos QLM, shipped to CERN in Oct, will be designed available to the CERN scientific neighborhood to aid investigation functions in the framework of the CERN Quantum Know-how Initiative (CERN QTI), consequently accelerating the investigation of quantum benefit for large-vitality physics (HEP) and over and above.

“Building on CERN’s distinctive skills and robust collaborative lifestyle, co-progress initiatives are at the main of CERN QTI. As we check out the fast-evolving field of quantum systems, access to the Atos Quantum Finding out Machine and Atos’ skills can participate in an crucial purpose in our quantum developments roadmap in aid of the large-vitality physics neighborhood and over and above,” says Alberto Di Meglio, Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Know-how Initiative. “A dedicated teaching workshop is being arranged with Atos to examine the whole functionality and potential of the quantum appliance, as perfectly as its foreseeable future application for some of the CERN QTI functions.”

“Atos is the entire world leader in the convergence of supercomputing and quantum computing, as shown by these two big and strategic jobs we are associated in in France and Germany. At a time when the French federal government is predicted to announce its plan for quantum computing, the longevity of our Quantum Board, the high-quality of the do the job carried out and the concrete apps of this investigation in big jobs enhance this place,” comments Pierre Barnabé, interim co-CEO and head of Significant Knowledge and Cybersecurity at Atos.

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

• Alain Facet, Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate University, Université Paris-Saclay and at Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• David DiVincenzo, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Institute for Quantum Details at RWTH Aachen College, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Investigate Centre
• 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, Investigate Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics
• Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.

As a result of Atos’ ambitious application to anticipate the foreseeable future of quantum computing and to be ready for the chances and challenges that occur with it – ‘Atos Quantum’ – Atos was the very first organization to give a quantum noisy simulation module which can simulate actual Qubits, the Atos QLM and to propose Q-rating, the only common metrics to assess quantum functionality and superiority. Atos is also the very first European patent holder in quantum computing.

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Photo : from still left to correct:

• Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Significant Knowledge and Cybersecurity (BDS), Atos.
• Sophie Proust, CTO, Atos.
• René Martin, Head of Knowledge encryption Company Unit, 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, 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 Know-how Officer, BDS, Atos