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Pasqal has inaugurated Italy’s first neutral-atom quantum computer at CINECA in Bologna, expanding Europe’s hybrid HPC-quantum computing infrastructure.
The 140-qubit Pasqal Orion system, named SOL, is integrated with the Leonardo supercomputer to support hybrid quantum-classical workloads.
The deployment is Pasqal’s third EuroHPC-linked quantum system in Europe, following earlier installations in France and Germany.
PRESS RELEASE — Pasqal, one of the global leaders in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the inauguration of Europe’s third Pasqal quantum computer hosted at CINECA, Italy’s largest public supercomputing operator and a member of the Italian Research Center on High Performance Computing (ICSC), Big Data, and Quantum Computing, in Bologna, Italy. The system was unveiled at the DAMA Technopole in Emilia-Romagna during a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the launch of new high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing systems procured by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) and co-financed together with the Italy’s Ministry of University and Research through ICSC, including the system delivered by Pasqal. This milestone marks a major step forward in the deployment of Europe’s hybrid HPC and quantum computing infrastructure.
