Atos partners with Zapata to deliver complete quantum computing solution to the enterprise

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and US-based Zapata Computing Inc., a leading enterprise software company for quantum applications, today announced a global partnership to deliver an end-to-end quantum computing solution that combines Zapata’s software platform Orquestra™ (Orquestra) with the Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM) to address vertical markets.

The joint solution allows organizations to engage the world’s most difficult computational problems within oil and gas, aviation, finance and pharmaceutical industries with a unique approach ready to deploy and scale to real-world challenges. In addition, Atos and Zapata will also come together to provide comprehensive consulting services to help customers become quickly up-to-speed on the capabilities of quantum computing to solve their business problems.

Orquestra combines a software platform and quantum algorithm libraries to enable the next generation of discoveries — for a wide range of industries including chemistry, pharmaceuticals, logistics, finance and materials science — on quantum computers.

Atos QLM is a stand-alone, hardware-agnostic appliance that provides access to an evolutive quantum programming environment and simulates the behavior of any kind of quantum computing technology. Atos has installed the QLM in numerous countries including Austria, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States empowering major research programs, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.

Zapata’s Orquestra software already supports several key use cases that can be deployed using the Atos QLM and benefit from its unique circuit optimization features and simulation capabilities, including:

• Engineering design – Orquestra provides a quantum method for solving problems related to partial differential equation (PDE) in mechanical and materials engineering. Areas of applications include engine design and optimization, aerodynamics and chemical engineering.

• Quantum chemistry simulation – Zapata’s algorithms solve physical chemistry problems, such as simulating strongly correlated electronic structure problems where traditional quantum chemistry methods typically struggle in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

• Quantum enhanced AI:
  • Dimensionality reduction – Many real-world problems involve large data sets with a multitude of features. Zapata has developed a novel set of quantum techniques that allows for mapping high-dimensional data onto low-dimensional latent spaces in ways that are intractable with classical techniques.
  • Generative models – Companies using the Atos QLM can leverage Orquestra to train generative models with less data (for instance in digital content creation), improve the accuracy of predictions on sparse datasets (for instance in predictive maintenance) and improve data classification algorithms.