The partnership will help both public and private players access a quantum development environment, irrespective of their location, thereby helping them build and trial “as a service” software bricks before the actual release of the first quantum computers
As part of the partnership, Atos will deploy its quantum learning machine within OVHcloud. (Credit: Atos SE)
Atos and cloud computing firm OVHcloud are joining forces to accelerate the development of quantum computing by making the former’s quantum emulator available “as a service” through the latter’s offers.
The partnership is expected to increase access to quantum emulations technologies. As a result, this will grow the ecosystem of quantum technologies, said the two France-based companies.
According to the duo, both public and private players of the ecosystem will be able to access a quantum development environment, irrespective of their location. This will enable them to build and trial “as a service” software bricks before the actual release of the first quantum computers.
The offering from Atos and OVHcloud will emulate a real quantum environment in order to reproduce the multiple approaches to quantum computation.
Atos said that its quantum learning machine (QLM) powered by the company’s SMP BullSequana X800 server achieves simulation capabilities that cover three different quantum programming modes. These include the gate model, the annealing model, and the analog model.
By deploying Atos QLM within OVHcloud, users will get to emulate circuits up to 38 qubits in double precision. This lets them solve quantum annealing problems of up to 5,000+ qubits, said the partners.
Atos SVP and HPC, AI and Quantum director Emmanuel Le Roux said: “We are convinced that the future of high-performance computing lies in the hybridization of our technologies, between traditional computing and the integration of co-processors, accelerators, quantum and cloud technologies.
“Already a pioneer in quantum with the launch of our QLM in 2017, which was the first emulator on the market, this strategic partnership with OVHcloud is an additional step forward in our quantum strategy.”
OVHcloud, by selecting Atos’ technology as an anchor for its future developments, will be able to provide quantum computation solutions via Jupyter Notebook, a web-based interactive computing platform.
Based on the infrastructure, Jupyter Notebook will provide a variable level of performances which is expected to benefit from the work already undertaken by OVHcloud’s artificial intelligence teams.
OVHcloud CTO Thierry Souche said: “By announcing this partnership, OVHcloud confirms its ambition to address and make accessible to the greatest number of people the most advanced technologies.
“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.”