PASQAL To Deliver 100+ Qubit Quantum Simulator to JSC
At the SC23 conference in Denver, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Forschungszentrum Jülich, and PASQAL demonstrated progress within the framework of the European project “High-Performance Computer and Quantum Simulator hybrid” (HPCQS). PASQAL will deliver two 100+ qubit quantum simulators, which are a type of analogue quantum computer, to its first customers: JSC and CEA/GENCI. At JSC, the device, which has been acquired as part of the European project HPCQS and has been co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the German Federal Government, will be coupled with the JURECA DC supercomputer. The PASQAL quantum simulator at JSC will be accessible to a wide range of European users in 2024. The two PASQAL systems are the first building block of a European federated HPC Quantum Computing and Simulation (HPC-QCS) infrastructure that will also consist of the six quantum computers acquired by the EuroHPC JU. At JSC, HPCQS is fully integrated into the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ).
HPCQS users are already able to validate their use cases through various entry points, such as the Pulser environment deployed on JURECA DC, as well as thanks to remote access to a 100+ qubit device hosted at PASQAL’s premises in Massy, France. Currently, some HPCQS users from JSC are performing remote simulations on this device to benchmark it and to demonstrate quantum many-body scarring, a phenomenon that has recently attracted a lot of interest in foundations of quantum statistical physics and potential quantum information processing applications. European end users will soon have access to a more scalable, tensor network-based emulator from PASQAL, called EMU-TN, which will be deployed on both French and German environments.
More information is available in the press release.
Contact: Prof. Kristel Michielsen
from JSC News No. 300, 12 December 2023