• Pasqalhas officially delivered a state-of-the-art 140-qubit neutral atom quantum computer to theCINECAsupercomputing center at the DAMA Technopole in Bologna. • This installation marks Italy’s first on-site neutral atom system and is part of a broader European effort to build a sovereign, hybrid infrastructure combining high-performance computing (HPC) with quantum processing units (QPUs). • Funded by theItalian Ministry of University and Research (MUR)through theNational Center ICSCand theEuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the project aligns with Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) to establish the nation as a strategic global hub for innovation in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. • The new system is specifically engineered for deep integration withLeonardo, one of the world’s most powerful pre-exascale supercomputers. • This hybrid architecture allows researchers and industrial users to offload highly complex workloads-such as large-scale optimization, advanced materials simulation, and machine learning-directly to Pasqal’s QPU while utilizing Leonardo for classical data handling and processing. • The integration is expected to become fully operational in the coming months, providing the Italian and European scientific communities with a unified platform to tackle challenges that remain computationally intractable for classical systems alone.
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- Pasqal has officially delivered a state-of-the-art 140-qubit neutral atom quantum computer to the CINECA supercomputing center at the DAMA Technopole in Bologna. This installation marks Italy’s first on-site neutral atom system and is part of a broader European effort to build a sovereign, hybrid infrastructure combining high-performance computing (HPC) with quantum processing units (QPUs). Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the National Center ICSC and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the project aligns with Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRR
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