Atos and OVHcloud have announced a partnership in the field of Quantum Computing to make Atos’ quantum emulator available As-a-Service through OVHcloud offers. This European premiere will make quantum emulations technologies more accessible, thereby expanding the quantum technologies’ ecosystem. Research laboratories, universities, start-ups and large companies will ultimately have the opportunity to design quantum software and explore pioneering applications well ahead of the market.
By fostering the emergence of tomorrow’s champions and, by encouraging their international reach, Atos and OVHcloud are committed to contributing to the development of a coherent ecosystem ready for the advent of Quantum Computing technologies. Thanks to the two European leaders, both public and private players of this burgeoning ecosystem will have access to a quantum development environment wherever they are located, so they can develop and experiment As-a-Service software bricks ahead of the effective release of the first quantum computers.
By emulating a real quantum environment, this offering aims to reproduce the various approaches to quantum computation. Using the unique power of Atos’ SMP BullSequana X800 server, the Atos QLM achieves unrivalled simulation capabilities, covering three different quantum programming modes (the gate model, the annealing model and the analogue model). When deployed within OVHcloud, users will be able to emulate circuits up to 38 qubits in double precision and solve quantum annealing problems of up to 5,000+ qubits.
Scalable and interoperable, Atos’ QLM enables the development of hardware-independent quantum software layers in programme, annealing and analogue modes, thanks to its unique and patented quantum compilation technology. This unique technology will also pave the way for the first applications that are optimised for first-generation processors known as NISQ or Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum.
In choosing Atos technology as an anchor for its future developments, OVHcloud will be in a position to offer quantum computation solutions through Jupyter Notebooks, offering developers easy access. Designed according to free and open standards, the Notebook will offer a variable level of performances depending on the infrastructure, which will benefit from the work already carried out by the Artificial Intelligence teams at OVHcloud.
Concerned with strengthening the European digital ecosystem by embracing the next technological leaps, Atos and OVHcloud commit themselves to encourage the adoption of this new paradigm to contribute to Europe’s technological sovereignty and to foster the emergence of new champions in this field.
“By announcing this partnership, OVHcloud confirms its ambition to address and make accessible to the greatest number of people the most advanced technologies,” said Thierry Souche, CTO, OVHcloud. “The quantum revolution and the deployment of the first use cases cannot be achieved without the cloud, whose consumption mode and freedom of use are uniquely able to unite expert communities.”
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