Paris, June 4, 2024,
Today, we are very proud to officially announce the AQADOC project funded by the Ile-de-France Region! You can find the Press Release in 🇬🇧 English and 🇫🇷 French by clicking on the links or below.
Welinq’s mission is to provide the quantum networking hardware, software, and services to make multiple quantum processor units work together. This approach allows us to overcome the limitations of individual QPUs, such as the finite number of qubits, by parallelizing computations across several interconnected devices. Aligned with this mission, we have built, together with EDF (Electricite de France), a world-first consortium dedicated to distributed quantum computing and focused on the pressing use cases related to energy transition.
The AQADOC project is uniting quantum computer manufacturers, end-users, and ecosystem gatherers to explore the advantages of algorithm parallelization. This project exemplifies the collaborative spirit necessary to drive innovation in the quantum ecosystem. We will have the pleasure to lead this groundbreaking consortium in partnership with EDF, joined by key players in the quantum ecosystem: Pasqal, Quandela, Lip6, Le Lab Quantique, Teratec, and with the key support of GENCI, which operates HPC centers in France. The project also involves the LIP6 laboratory (CNRS/Sorbonne University), with its expertise in quantum protocols and algorithms, and the Quandela and Pasqal companies, and will therefore include from the outset the specific features linked to the types of quantum processors developed by these two manufacturers (based respectively on photons and neutral atoms).
Consortium in green, interested actors in white.
In addition, AQADOC has received strong support from a lot of other French actors, who expressed their interest in following the outcomes of the project.
The AQADOC project will develop new algorithms tailored to the challenges in energy production and management, from battery simulation to optimal energy routing in electrical infrastructures. Distributed quantum computing algorithms will also be used to address other simulation use cases, such as simulating the structure of materials and possible failures that could occur in dams and power plants. This type of structural evolution simulation requires extremely high computing resources, which distributed quantum computing can tackle. Concretely, the algorithmic advances enabled by AQADOC will, among other things, enable a given quantum algorithm to be segmented across several processors in a cluster, thus drastically increasing computing power and facilitating the resolution of such problems.
Again, we extend our deepest gratitude to the Île-de-France Region for their unwavering support and dedication to fostering a robust and federated quantum ecosystem. Together, we are paving the way for a quantum future that promises unprecedented advancements and applications across various industries.
Many thanks again to all of our partners for supporting us in this project. We are eager to work with all of you!
Representatives of the AQADOC consortium with the President of the Ile-de-France Region: Valérie Pécresse