Eviden, the Atos Group business leading in digital, cloud, big data and security, today announced it is supporting the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) through training initiatives to raise awareness of the challenges of quantum computing. URCA will draw on Eviden's long-standing expertise in the sector, through its Qaptiva offering.

Led by University of Melbourne theoretician and HPC expert Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca, a research team has achieved the first quantum simulation of biological systems at a scale necessary to accurately model drug performance.

Eni and ITQuanta have agreed to form a joint venture, Eniquantic, with the aim of developing an integrated hardware and software quantum machine2 capable of solving complex problems (mathematical optimisation, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence) and initiating specific and significant quantum computing applications to support the energy transition.

Qubit Pharmaceuticals , a deeptech company specializing in the discovery of new drug candidates through molecular simulation and modeling accelerated by hybrid HPC and quantum computing, announced that it has drastically reduced the number of qubits needed to compute the properties of small molecules with its Hyperion-1 emulator, developed in partnership with Sorbonne Université. This world first raises hopes of a near-term practical application of hybrid HPC – quantum computing to drug discovery.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced it has appointed Richard Beyer and Robin Washington to its board of directors. Beyer and Washington join existing board members in supporting the company’s mission to power the next generation of computing systems to further enable AI innovation.

Riverlane, the global leader in quantum error correction technology, has released its groundbreaking three-year roadmap for its Quantum Error Correction Stack, Deltaflow, starting in 2024 and culminating in a system where quantum computers can run one million (Mega) error-free Quantum Operations (QuOps) by 2026.

Multiverse Computing, a global leader in AI and quantum software solutions, won time on a supercomputer to build a large language model (LLM) for the Large AI Grand Challenge by AI-BOOST, an open challenge program designed to be a benchmark for the European artificial intelligence (AI) community.

In a new study published in The European Physics Journal A, Li and colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory created a method to validate quantum algorithms for nuclear physics applications. While Li and his colleagues are not the first to apply quantum computing methods to low-energy physics calculations, their newly developed method makes validating these calculations more efficient—setting the stage for quantum advances over classical calculations in this field.

In collaboration with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Q-Exa consortium, led by IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a global leader in building quantum computers, and including Eviden and HQS Quantum Simulation, has integrated a 20-qubit quantum computer into a supercomputer, SuperMUC-NG in Germany.