Atos, a major player in France’s national strategy on quantum technologies

Paris, France – 21 January 2021

Atos welcomes the French government’s initiative and is very pleased to participate in the progress of the national approach on quantum systems, declared nowadays by President Emmanuel Macron.

With special skills in Europe and progressive systems such as the Atos Quantum Understanding Machine (Atos QLM), the world’s most powerful quantum simulator, Atos is previously working closely with national players such as GENCI (Grand Equipement Countrywide de Calcul) and the CEA (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique), as nicely as the start-up Pasqal. The national quantum approach now provides Atos the prospect to accelerate its Atos Quantum software and fortify its contribution to the French quantum ecosystem, with a check out to providing its clients the first added benefits of quantum computing in the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) period as quickly as doable.

“The prepare declared nowadays for the progress of quantum systems is quite exceptional and we are extremely honored to have been associated with this announcement. Quantum computing guarantees sizeable progress in strategic regions for our modern society, such as overall health, chemistry, finance and the combat from world warming and decarbonization. Confronted with these big socio-financial challenges, it is critical to established up general public-private partnerships and foster cooperation in between governments, academic researchers, customers and private organizations. France’s national approach is equal to the revolution to come and we are very pleased to be between the players who will participate in making it a truth,” claimed Elie Girard, Atos CEO.

Atos’ contribution to the national quantum approach will aim on 4 regions:

• The progress of NISQ simulators and accelerators built-in into hybrid higher-overall performance computing platforms: capitalizing on the Atos QLM and its skills in higher-overall performance computing, Atos has established the objective of providing a quantum accelerator connected to a supercomputer as early as 2023. On the other hand, innovation in quantum computing is not only about hardware but also about program. This is the way Atos is using with the Atos QLM quantum simulation and program progress system.
• Write-up-quantum cryptography: Atos is previously working on integrating article-quantum algorithms into its cybersecurity equipment. Its do the job in this spot will more accelerate the developments wanted to put together the hardware implementations of foreseeable future article-quantum standards.
• Intercontinental cooperation: Atos has made working in cooperation with foreseeable future industrial customers a priority of its Atos Quantum software. The Team is concerned in many academic assignments, notably with the Institut d’Optique and INRIA. In parallel, its skills and the Atos QLM contribute to many European courses, which include the NEASQC (Subsequent Programs of Quantum Computing) task. As component of the national quantum approach, Atos intends to leverage the working experience attained via these numerous assignments to foster interactions in between academics, technologies suppliers and customers.
• Benchmarking: the quick and ongoing emergence of new systems and approaches to quantum programming is critical for the progress of the sector, but also a supply of complexity for companies wishing to spend. In 2020, Atos developed Q-score, the first responsible, aim and reasonable common metric to simplify the connection in between technologies customers and suppliers.

Atos established a Scientific Council dedicated to Quantum. Users are:

• Alain Part, Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate College and Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay
• David DiVincenzo, Professor at the Alexander von Humboldt University and Director at the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Study Middle
• Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford and Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the Countrywide University of Singapore
• Daniel Esteve, Study Director, CEA Saclay, Head of Quantronics
• Serge Haroche, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel Prize in Physics.

In the foreground, from left to appropriate: Emmanuel Macron and Elie Girard
In the back, from left to appropriate: Cédric O, Bruno Le Maire, Amélie de Montchalin andFrédérique Vidal

To master extra about Atos’ pursuits in the area of quantum computing, click here.

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