Neutral-atom quantum hardware developer Pasqal has officially inaugurated its SOL quantum computer at the DAMA Technopole in Emilia-Romagna, Bologna. Hosted by CINECA, Italy’s largest public supercomputing consortium and a core member of the Italian Research Center on HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing (ICSC), the deployment marks the installation of Italy’s first operational neutral-atom quantum platform. Co-funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) and Italy’s Ministry of University and Research, the system acts as Pasqal’s third federated EuroHPC installation in Europe, following the active placement of identical hardware arrays at computing centers in France and Germany. The Orion QPU Architecture and [...]

Pasqal launches its third European quantum computer at CINECA in Italy, integrating 140-qubit Orion QPU with EuroHPC supercomputing systems.

ICSC and CINECA have launched an IQM Radiance quantum computer in Italy, enabling hybrid quantum and HPC research workflows.