Citing a rise in person demand for quantum simulators, the UK authorities is ready to buy its second quantum computing simulator, in keeping with media reports and government announcements.

In line with the announcement, UK Analysis & Innovation awarded £385,000 — or about $470,000 U.S. — for a Quantum Learning Machine — or QLM. The gadget,  which is a quantum simulator that mimics quantum conduct, is developed by Atos, a French based mostly firm with an IT providers unit positioned in London.

The gadget will probably be put in within the Hartree Centre, positioned at Daresbury Laboratory, one of many UK’s solely supercomputing facilities devoted to trade functions. It can be a part of Hartree Centre’s different excessive efficiency computing units, together with the Scafell Pike — Bull Sequana X1000 and the JADE 2 — Bull Atos NVIDIA DGX1 Max-Q.

The announcement experiences that the second unit will assist handle useful resource points as a result of a lot of customers would really like entry. This information additionally underscores the need for classical computer- and supercomputer-equipped information facilities to discover quantum computing and hybrid quantum computing.

Atos’s QLM can simulate three completely different quantum computing modalities, together with the gate mannequin, the annealing mannequin, and the analog mannequin. In line with authorities specs, the gadget can simulate quantum computer systems of as much as 38 qubits.

Knowledge Middle Dynamics experiences that Atos has beforehand introduced offers to produce QLMs to the Galician Supercomputing Center, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, and OVHcloud.

The Hartree Centre is a part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) – considered one of Europe’s largest multi-disciplinary scientific analysis organisations – inside UK Research and Innovation.