EuroQHPC-Integration

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is building a world-leading hybrid infrastructure that couples high-performance computing (HPC) with quantum computing (QC) for open research and innovation. To deliver it, EuroHPC has selected six initial Hosting Entities to operate Europe’s first quantum computers, each tightly coupled to a co-located supercomputer. EuroQHPC-Integration unites these six platforms and their partners across Europe so that, rather than six isolated systems, researchers and industry gain access to one coherent European hybrid HPC+QC ecosystem. Spanning four years, the project brings together partner organizations from 16 European countries, making cross-border collaboration the foundation on which the shared infrastructure is built.

The partners pool their efforts on four shared goals:

1. A harmonized user experience across all six hybrid HPC+QC platforms
2. Common proof-of-concept applications and benchmarks that validate HPC+QC integration
3. Joint contributions to emerging European and international standards
4. A shared Technical Support Team to help users adopt the technology

By making this frontier infrastructure open and accessible, the project accelerates progress on problems that matter to society, from drug and protein design, quantum chemistry and new materials, to climate and Earth-observation analysis, gravitational-wave detection and high-energy physics. Lowering the barrier to hybrid quantum-classical computing helps European science, industry and innovators turn early quantum capability into real-world impact.

CSC contributes within the LUMI-Q effort, where the 24-qubit VLQ superconducting quantum computer is integrated with supercomputing infrastructure. CSC contributes to the design and implementation of a hardware-agnostic model for hybrid computing, combining HPC, AI, and quantum computing, helping make Europe’s first quantum computers as approachable to researchers as the supercomputers beside them.

More information about the funding

This project is supported by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) under grant agreement No 101159808.