Recently, Forschungszentrum J ü Lich in Germany launched the first quantum computer with more than 5000 qubits in Europe. The center said it was an important milestone in the development of quantum computers in Europe.
The super quantum computer, manufactured by d-wave, a Canadian supplier of quantum computing systems, is the company’s most powerful computing machine to date and is deployed outside the company’s headquarters for the first time.
This is a quantum annealing computer, which is essentially the same idea as adiabatic quantum computing. This machine is designed to deal with optimization and sampling problems. The advantage of quantum annealing is that its system stability is much higher than that of quantum gate.
With the help of this super quantum computer and the remote cloud access d-wave quantum system established at Leahy Research Center, the center can participate in the practical application of quantum computing at an early stage.
In order to realize the commercial application of quantum computing as soon as possible, the center has established JULICH quantum computing user infrastructure (juniq) to provide friendly access to quantum computing systems for different user groups in Europe.
“This is the beginning of a new era.” “Frankly speaking, Germany and Europe need to catch up in the field of quantum computing, but we also know that this competition has just begun and there should be progress in the next few years. This is the goal of the German government,” said Bettina stark Watzinger, German Federal Minister of education and research
Ensuring technological sovereignty in the field of quantum computing is one of the goals of the German government.
On the other side of Atlantic China Welding Consumables Inc(600558) , Canada has just launched a quantum strategy of C $360 million. Although the current super quantum computer is made in Canada, Watzinger hopes that future machines can be produced in his own country: “the future hardware and software must also come from Germany and the EU. Our goal is to play a leading role in the world and ensure long-term technological sovereignty.”
Quantum computers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to drug development, network security, financial modeling, weather forecasting and many other fields, and deal with problems that cannot be solved by classical computers.
Through the European high performance computing Consortium (eurohpc) between the European Commission and Member States, the EU plans to spend 7 billion euros on supercomputers over the next six years. Most of the money will be used to develop supercomputing infrastructure across Europe, some of which will be used for quantum projects.
In the future, Ulrich research center will provide facilities for German and other EU researchers and companies to use juniq to help them use quantum computers, from experimental systems, machine prototypes to the first production system, and develop algorithms and applications.
