QUANTUMvLAB @ Deucalion

Virtual Quantum Computing Laboratory

The year 2025 has been proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Year for Quantum Science and Technologies .
In line with the need for greater dissemination and understanding of Quantum Computing, in the 1st quarter of 2025 a quantum simulator was installed in the ARM partition of the DEUCALION supercomputer .

This simulator emerged through the installation of the Qulacs tool on Deucalion, in close collaboration between CNCA, INESC TEC, Fujitsu, INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory), and IST-UL (Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon). Having identified the need to promote and attract more users from the quantum computing community to this new simulator, in April 2025, the FCT approved the creation of a third virtual laboratory, which will join HPCvLAB and AIvLAB: the Quantum Computing Virtual Laboratory – QUANTUMvLAB .

How it works: Up to 1,024 ARM nodes can be requested for testing for a maximum period of 6 months, until December 31, 2025. Requests will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and will be subject to general usage limitations on the Deucalion supercomputer. QUANTUMvLAB access will be managed by time intervals for the same subset of resources. That is, each project can use the system for a period of time, after which the subset of resources will be released for use by another project. This type of access regime is managed by automatic queue management processes.

Objectives:

Support users who want to test the quantum simulator on Deucalion;
Support training in quantum computing;
Create synergies between the national quantum computing community, CNCA and Deucalion, collaborating with other European teams and quantum computers that have recently come into operation (QMio at CESGA, Euro-QCS, MareNostrum-ONA, and others in the EuroHPC network).