The EuroHPC initiative has announced the deployment of EuroQCS-Spain, a new hybrid system that will combine quantum computing and HPC capabilities at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), strengthening Spain’s role within the European strategy for technological sovereignty.

The project will enable researchers, companies, and public agencies to access an integrated infrastructure designed to accelerate the development of advanced applications in artificial intelligence, scientific simulation, computational chemistry, industrial optimization, and climate modeling.

EuroQCS-Spain is part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the EU initiative aimed at consolidating a pan-European network of supercomputing and emerging technologies. The infrastructure will be connected to MareNostrum 5 and other European systems, facilitating hybrid environments where workloads can combine classical and quantum processing.

The deployment reflects an increasingly visible trend in the digital infrastructure market: the integration of quantum computing into traditional HPC ecosystems. Rather than operating as isolated environments, new quantum systems are being designed as specialized accelerators for specific algorithms and complex simulations.

EuroHPC emphasizes that the goal is to facilitate access to real quantum resources through platforms already in use by research centers and industry, thereby reducing the technical barriers to experimenting with hybrid architectures.

The Spanish system will be integrated into the EuroQCS network, alongside other similar initiatives deployed in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic, forming a future interconnected European quantum computing network.

This piece was automatically translated from DCD’s Spanish site and edited by a member of DCD’s editorial staff.