CINECA

CINECA is Italy's national supercomputing center, a non-profit consortium based in Bologna that provides high-performance computing resources to universities, research institutions, and industry across Italy and Europe. As one of the continent's foremost HPC facilities, it supports large-scale scientific workloads spanning climate modeling, life sciences, physics, and increasingly, artificial intelligence research.

CINECA has become a focal point for Europe's quantum computing ambitions. The center hosts SOL, Italy's first neutral-atom quantum computer — a 54-qubit system developed by Paris-based quantum firm Pasqal and inaugurated in partnership with the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC). The installation marks a significant step in integrating quantum hardware alongside classical supercomputing infrastructure.

Through its ties to EuroHPC, CINECA functions as a strategic node in Europe's effort to build sovereign, continent-scale computing capacity. Its combination of established supercomputing expertise and emerging quantum systems makes it a key site for testing next-generation computational approaches relevant to AI, materials science, and beyond.