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

Paris, France – December three, 2021

At the conference of the eighth Atos Quantum Advisory Board, a group of intercontinental experts, mathematicians and physicists, authorities in their fields, Atos reaffirms its position as a worldwide chief in quantum computing technologies. The quantum hybridization axis (convergence of substantial-functionality computing (HPC) and quantum computing) in individual positions the organization at the forefront of quantum analysis, converging its knowledge. Atos has invested, along with lover get started-ups Pasqal and IQM, in two major quantum hybridization assignments in France and Germany.

Held at Atos’ R&D centre, focused to analysis in quantum computing and substantial-functionality computing, in Clayes-sous-Bois, in the existence of Atos’ subsequent CEO, Rodolphe Belmer, and less than the chairmanship of Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Significant Information and Cybersecurity, this conference of the Quantum Advisory Board was an possibility to evaluate Atos’ new perform and to choose inventory of foreseeable future prospective buyers.

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 mentioned “We are definitely amazed by the perform and the progress that Atos has made above the previous 12 months. The organization takes quantum computing significantly and it gives us terrific pleasure to see it getting a single of the vital players in the discipline. It is a pure development for Atos. As a globe chief in Superior Efficiency Computing (HPC), Atos is in a distinctive position to incorporate its current, comprehensive, knowledge in HPC with quantum technological innovation and choose both fields to new heights. We are self-confident that Atos will shape the quantum landscape in a long time to appear, both with analysis and apps that have lengthy-long lasting affect.”

In the discipline of quantum hybridization Atos is the only participant and the organization is already enabling many apps – in the regions of chemistry, this sort of as catalysis design and style for nitrogen fixation, and for the optimization of wise grids. Atos is also concerned in two supplemental quantum hybridization assignments, which are at this time remaining released:

The European HPC-QS (Quantum Simulation) project, which commences this December 2021, aims to create the initial European hybrid supercomputer with an integrated quantum accelerator by the finish of 2023. It is meant to be a initial major brick of the French quantum program. Atos is concerned in this project alongside countrywide companions which includes the CEA, GENCI, Pasqal and the Julich Supercomputing Centre. Pasqal will provide its analog quantum accelerator and Atos, with its quantum simulator, the Quantum Studying Device (QLM), will guarantee the hybridization with the HPCs at the two datacenters at GENCI and Julich.

The Q-EXA project, section of the German Authorities quantum program, will see a consortium of companions, which includes Atos, perform together to combine a German quantum pc into an HPC supercomputer for the initial time. Atos’ QLM will be instrumental in connecting the quantum pc, from get started-up IQM (also section of the Atos Scaler software) to the Leibniz Supercomputing-LRZ centre.

The European Firm for Nuclear Investigation (CERN), a single of the world’s premier and most respected analysis centres, based in Geneva, has not long ago obtained an Atos Quantum Studying Device (QLM) appliance and joined the Atos User Club. The Atos QLM, delivered to CERN in October, will be made accessible to the CERN scientific neighborhood to aid analysis functions in the framework of the CERN Quantum Technologies Initiative (CERN QTI), so accelerating the investigation of quantum gain for substantial-electrical power physics (HEP) and outside of.

“Building on CERN’s distinctive knowledge and potent collaborative culture, co-advancement endeavours are at the core of CERN QTI. As we discover the rapidly-evolving discipline of quantum technologies, entry to the Atos Quantum Studying Device and Atos’ knowledge can enjoy an vital job in our quantum developments roadmap in aid of the substantial-electrical power physics neighborhood and outside of,” says Alberto Di Meglio, Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Technologies Initiative. “A focused coaching workshop is remaining arranged with Atos to examine the whole performance and opportunity of the quantum appliance, as nicely as its foreseeable future software for some of the CERN QTI functions.”

“Atos is the globe chief in the convergence of supercomputing and quantum computing, as revealed by these two major and strategic assignments we are concerned in in France and Germany. At a time when the French governing administration is envisioned to announce its program for quantum computing, the durability of our Quantum Board, the excellent of the perform carried out and the concrete apps of this analysis in major assignments enhance this position,” opinions Pierre Barnabé, interim co-CEO and head of Significant Information and Cybersecurity at Atos.

The Quantum Advisory Board is made up of universally regarded quantum physicists and includes:

• Alain Component, 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 Data at RWTH Aachen University, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Investigation 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, Investigation Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics
• Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.

As a consequence of Atos’ ambitious software to anticipate the foreseeable future of quantum computing and to be geared up for the opportunities and difficulties that appear with it – ‘Atos Quantum’ – Atos was the initial corporation to give a quantum noisy simulation module which can simulate real Qubits, the Atos QLM and to suggest Q-rating, the only common metrics to assess quantum functionality and superiority. Atos is also the initial European patent holder in quantum computing.

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Photograph : from still left to ideal:

• Pierre Barnabé, Chair of the Quantum Advisory Board, Interim co-CEO and Head of Significant Information and Cybersecurity (BDS), Atos.
• Sophie Proust, CTO, Atos.
• René Martin, Head of Information encryption Business enterprise Device, BDS, Atos.
• Cyril Allouche, R&D Director, Quantum Computing.
• Rodolphe Belmer, Atos’ subsequent CEO.
• Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics.
• Daniel Esteve, Investigation 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 Approach and Innovation, BDS, Atos
• Philippe Duluc, Main Technologies Officer, BDS, Atos

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