The LUMI-Q’s consortium quantum computer is based on superconducting qubits in a star-shaped topology. Such a star-shaped topology minimises the number of swap operations between qubits thus enabling the execution of very complex quantum algorithms.
The system will offer 24 physical qubits coupled to a central resonator.
LUMI-Q will be available to a wide range of European users, from the scientific community to industry and the public sector. The upcoming quantum computing infrastructure will support the development of a wide range of applications with industrial, scientific and societal relevance for Europe, adding new capabilities to the European supercomputing infrastructure.
The LUMI-Q consortium system will enable European end-users to actively explore applications and algorithms tailored for the novel star topology, such as e.g. hardware-efficient quantum error correction (QEC) schemes.
Owned by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the LUMI-Q consortium quantum system will be connected to the EuroHPC petascale supercomputer Karolina and hosted by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava.
LUMI-Q is co-funded with a total acquisition cost of EUR 5 million. The EuroHPC JU will fund 50% of the costs and the remaining 50% will be funded by the LUMI-Q consortium. The LUMI-Q consortium is a true pan-European collaboration effort with 9 European countries involved: Czechia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The installation of the system will start in 2025.
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Background
IQM has been selected following a call for tender launched in February 2024.
On June 2023, the EuroHPC JU signed hosting agreements with six sites across Europe to host and operate EuroHPC quantum computers.
On July 2024, the EuroHPC JU has announced the signature of the procurement contract for the first quantum system, EuroQCS-Poland, with the selected vendor.
The selection of six hosting entities followed the view of offering the widest possible variety of different European quantum computing platforms and hybrid classical-quantum architectures, giving Europe the opportunity to be at the forefront of this emerging field, and to provide European users with access to diverse and complementary quantum technologies.
This initiative offers a novel interpretation of quantum computers as accelerator platforms in genuine HPC environments. The foreseen integration will require essential R&D developments towards a hybrid software stack managing both HPC and quantum computing (QC) workloads. During the integration work, all Hosting Entities will collaborate closely with European Standardisation bodies.
These six quantum computers will come on top of two analogue quantum simulators procured under the EuroHPC JU project HPCQS and which are based on neutral atoms, supplied by the French company PASQAL. HPCQS aims to develop and coordinate a cloud-based European federated infrastructure, tightly integrating two quantum computers, each controlling 100-plus qubits in the Tier-0 HPC systems Joliot-Curie of GENCI and the JUWELS modular supercomputer at the Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC).
About EuroHPC JU
The EuroHPC JU is a legal and funding entity, created in 2018 and reviewed in 2021 by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173. This was recently amended in 2024 by means of Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732, with the mission to:
- develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the EU a world-leading federated, secure and hyper-connected supercomputing, quantum computing, service and data infrastructure ecosystem;
- support the development and uptake of demand-oriented and user-driven innovative and competitive supercomputing system based on a supply chain that will ensure components, technologies and knowledge limiting the risk of disruptions and the development of a wide range of applications optimised for these systems;
- widen the use of that supercomputing infrastructure to a large number of public and private users and support the development of key HPC skills for European science and industry.
- develop and operate AI Factories located around EuroHPC supercomputing facilities to support the growth of a highly competitive and innovative AI ecosystem in Europe.
In order to equip Europe with a world-leading supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured nine supercomputers, located across Europe. Three of these EuroHPC supercomputers are now ranked among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers: LUMI in Finland, Leonardo in Italy and MareNostrum 5 in Spain.
No matter where in Europe they are located, European scientists and users from the public sector and industry can benefit from these EuroHPC supercomputers via the EuroHPC Access Calls to advance science and support the development of a wide range of applications with industrial, scientific and societal relevance for Europe.
About IT4Innovations
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava is a leading research, development, and innovation centre active in the fields of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Data Analysis (HPDA), Quantum Computing (QC), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their application to other scientific fields, industry, and society.
Since 2013, IT4Innovations has been operating the most powerful supercomputing systems in the Czech Republic, which are provided to Czech and foreign research teams from academia and industry. Together and the CESNET and CERIT-SC institutions, IT4Innovations constitute e-INFRA CZ, a strategic research infrastructure of the Czech Republic.
At present, IT4Innovations runs two supercomputers: Czech most powerful supercomputer Karolina (15.7 PFlop/s, installed in the summer of 2021), and Barbora (849 TFlop/s, installed in the autumn of 2019). Apart from the supercomputers operated at IT4Innovations, Czech research communities also have access to the LUMI supercomputer thanks to IT4Innovations' membership in the LUMI consortium.
In 2024, the first Czech quantum computer, operated by the LUMI-Q consortium, will be installed at IT4Innovations. The key research areas of IT4Innovations include big data processing and analysis, machine learning, development of parallel scalable algorithms and algorithms for quantum computers and simulators, the solution to computationally demanding engineering problems, advanced visualisation, virtual reality, modelling for nanotechnologies, and material design. For more information, see www.it4i.eu.
About IQM Quantum Computers
IQM is a global leader in designing, building, and selling superconducting quantum computers. IQM provides both on-premises full-stack quantum computers and a cloud platform to access its computers anywhere in the world.
IQM customers include the leading high-performance computing centres, research labs, universities and enterprises which have full access to IQM's software and hardware. IQM has over 280 employees with offices in Espoo, Munich, Paris, Warsaw, Madrid and Singapore.
Details
- Publication date
- 26 September 2024
- Author
- European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking