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The CESGA, IQM, and Telefónica Infrastructure Agreement positions Spain as a leader in European quantum innovation.

The Galician Supercomputing Centre (CESGA) has inked a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers and Telefónica to install a cutting-edge, on-premises quantum computing infrastructure, transforming Southern Europe's technology. Spain's first IQM quantum system deployment and historic alliance mark a milestone in digital development.

Intentional Dual-System Implementation

The deal requires IQM to deliver and install two full-stack quantum computers with distinct strategic roles in the Spanish industrial and scientific community.

Initial machine IQM Radiance is a powerful 54-qubit quantum computer. This technology is designed for easy integration into high-performance computing (HPC) centres and can tackle complex computational workloads that supercomputers cannot.

The second system is the 5-qubit IQM Spark quantum computer. The Spark emphasises education and skill development, unlike its larger sibling. This will allow the next generation of Spanish researchers, scientists, and engineers to work directly with quantum hardware and build algorithms and quantum logic. Both systems should be operational by June 2026.

AI Infrastructure/Finisterrae IV Connectivity

Quantum systems should work in an advanced, multi-tiered computer environment. CESGA will boost quantum capabilities with Finisterrae IV, its next supercomputer. This conventional HPC giant will meet the growing needs of AI and other data-intensive industries.

The infrastructure will also include a sophisticated data storage system to permanently store massive amounts of data. CESGA's advanced data services ensure efficient storage and analysis of quantum-classical hybrid simulation outputs.

Building a Useful Quantum Ecosystem

Bringing quantum computing from theory to production-grade applications is the major goal of this deployment. CESGA provides these gadgets to scientists and leading industries to experiment with hybrid workflows. These workflows are vital to technology's future because they apply AI, quantum computing, and high-performance computing to real problems.

IQM Quantum Computers' Chief Commercial Officer, Sylwia Barthel de Weydenthal, stressed the importance of integrating production-grade infrastructure into HPC settings. She said that this collaboration builds a quantum ecosystem in Spain for academic and industrial hybrid quantum-classical computing experiments. European Position of Spain

This effort puts CESGA on par with other prominent European research institutions. CESGA joined Jülich, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany, CSC in Finland, and CINECA in Italy in introducing quantum gear into its national HPC environment. This alignment strengthens Spain's position in European research and ensures that Spanish industry will compete globally for next-generation technology.

According to Telefónica España's CTIO Sergio Sánchez, quantum computing will be crucial for the future digital infrastructure. He said the alliance strengthens Spain's leadership in emerging technologies by delivering cutting-edge talents to businesses and researchers.

Force behind collaboration

The effort draws on two global industry leaders. Telefónica is a leading telecommunications company with 350 million customers in Europe and Latin America. Their involvement ensures a global leader in digital services and connectivity supports the infrastructure.

IQM Quantum Computers is a leader in superconducting quantum computer hardware. With over 300 employees and facilities in France, Germany, Japan, and the US, IQM offers cloud-based and on-premises technologies. The CESGA project's success rests on its capacity to supply “full-stack” solutions, including qubits and control software.

Qoro Quantum

Qoro Quantum and CESGA represent distributed quantum circuits with high-performance computing. Using Qoro Quantum's orchestration software and CESGA's CUNQA emulator, a test study showed scalable, distributed quantum circuit simulations over 10 HPC nodes. To assess distributed VQE and QAOA implementations, Qoro's Divi software built and scheduled thousands of quantum circuits for simulation on CESGA's infrastructure.

VQE and QAOA workloads finished in less than a second, demonstrating that high-throughput quantum algorithm simulations may be done with little code and efficient resources.

The pilot proved that distributed emulators like CUNQA can prepare HPC systems for large-scale quantum computing deployments by validating hybrid quantum-classical operations.

A pilot research from the Galician Supercomputing Centre (CESGA) and Qoro Quantum reveals how high-performance computing platforms may facilitate scalable, distributed quantum circuit simulations. A Qoro Quantum release said the two-week collaboration involved implementing Qoro's middleware orchestration platform to execute distributed versions of the variational quantum eigensolver and quantum approximate optimisation algorithm across CESGA's QMIO infrastructure.

Quantum Workload Integration and HPC Systems

Qoro's Divi quantum application layer automates hybrid quantum-classical algorithm orchestration and parallelisation. Divi created and ran quantum workloads on 10 HPC nodes using CESGA's CUNQA distributed QPU simulation framework for the pilot.

The announcement states that CESGA's modular testbed CUNQA mimics distributed QPU settings with customisable topologies and noise models. Qoro's technology might simulate quantum workloads in a multi-node setup to meet the demands of emerging hybrid quantum-HPC systems.

Everything worked perfectly, communication went well, and end-to-end functionality worked as intended.

Comparing QAOA and VQE in Distributed HPC

The variational hybrid approach VQE is used to estimate the ground-state energy of quantum systems, a major problem in quantum chemistry. Qoro and CESGA modelled a hydrogen molecule using two ansätze Hartree-Fock and Unitary Coupled Cluster Singles and Doubles in this pilot. Divi made 6,000 VQE circuits based on 20 bond length values.

With 10 computational nodes, the CUNQA emulator investigated the ansatz parameter space via Monte Carlo optimisation. Qoro says it replicated full demand in 0.51 seconds. Data collected automatically and returned for analysis show that the platform can enable high-throughput testing with only 15 lines of Divi code.

The researchers also evaluated QAOA, a quantum-classical technique for Max-Cut and combinatorial optimisation. This data clustering, circuit design, and logistics challenge involves partitioning a graph to maximise edges between two subgroups.

A 150-node network was partitioned into 15 clusters for simulation, and Qoro's Divi software built Monte Carlo parameterised circuits.Tests included 21,375 circuits in 15.44 seconds and 2,850 circuits in 2.13 seconds. The quantum-classical cut size ratio grew from 0.51 to 0.65 with sample size. The CUNQA emulator ran all circuits in parallel again utilising CESGA's architecture.

Performance, Infrastructure, and Prospects

Several pilot research results demonstrate scalable hybrid quantum computing advances. According to the Qoro Quantum release, Qoro's orchestration platform and CESGA's distributed quantum emulator provided faultless communication between the simulated QPU infrastructure and application layer. The cooperation also demonstrated how Qoro's Divi software could automatically generate and plan enormous quantum workloads, simplifying complex quantum applications.

The experiment also shown that distributed execution of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms over several HPC nodes may enhance performance without much human setup. Finally, the pilot showed key technological elements for scaling quantum workloads in high-performance computing. These insights will inform future distributed quantum system design.

Simulating distributed quantum architectures shows how HPC infrastructure might manage future quantum workloads. Qoro Quantum and CESGA plan to improve this method to enable quantum computing in large classical contexts.

スペインのスーパーコンピューティングセンターは、今年、〜1,500万ドルの量子コンピュータを調達予定 Galacian Supercomputing Center (CESGA) は、富士通から約1500万ドルの量子コンピュータを導入すると発表しました。 スペイン北西部に拠点を置くCESGAは、今年後半にこのシステムを導入する予定です。このシステムは、Xunta de Galicia（ガリシア地方政府）のGalician Innovation…