France's national high-performance computing agency GENCI this week announced the purchase of an 18-cat-qubit quantum computer from French firm Alice & Bob.
Set to go live in 2027, the system will be hosted at the Très Grand Centre de Calcul (TGCC) and integrated with GENCI's Joliot-Curie supercomputer.
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Dr Théau Peronnin, co-founder and CEO of Alice & Bob, said: "Scientific breakthroughs realise their full value when they can be deployed in real-world environments. The partnership signed today with GENCI will help bring together a community of academic and industrial researchers working to develop the technology stack required for fault-tolerant quantum computing, while broadening access to next-generation quantum technologies."
The cat-qubit-based system joins the Ruby and Lucy quantum computers already installed at the CEA's TGCC facility in Bruyères-le-Châtel.
