Overview
- Euro-Q-Exa was commissioned at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching and linked to the SuperMUC-NG supercomputer to serve as a hybrid accelerator.
- It is one of six quantum systems procured through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to build a European high-performance quantum infrastructure.
- The machine, built by Finnish–German firm IQM, uses superconducting qubits that operate at temperatures near minus 273 degrees Celsius.
- The project budget totals €25 million, financed by €12 million from Germany, €10 million from the European Union, and €3 million from the state of Bavaria.
- Early research targets include chemistry and drug discovery, logistics and flight-plan optimization, finance, MedTech and chip design, while experts stress the current scale cannot threaten common public-key cryptography.