Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre have announced a collaboration to integrate Alice & Bob’s future QPUs with high-performance computing (HPC) environments via SLURM. SLURM is the widely used workload management system for supercomputers.
The integration is intended to make Alice & Bob’s cat-qubit technology compatible with existing HPC workflows, allowing quantum processors, GPUs, and CPUs to be comanaged by the workload management system. SLURM allocates computing resources and schedules jobs to run efficiently, which is critical for maximizing throughput in hybrid quantum–classical workflows.
Alice & Bob specializes in cat qubits, which are designed to reduce the hardware requirements for building large-scale quantum computers. The company’s architecture is being adapted for seamless scheduling and execution within standard HPC resource management frameworks. The goal of this collaboration is to expand accessibility for researchers and accelerate the adoption of quantum technology by making early fault-tolerant quantum computing practical and accessible for future scientific and industrial applications.
Stefano Mensa, Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Group Leader at the Hartree Centre, noted that integrating quantum processors to be used like any other HPC resource is a foundational pillar of impactful hybrid quantum-classical integration. Theau Peronnin, CEO of Alice & Bob, stated that the collaboration targets real HPC user environments, accelerating adoption of their technology.
Read the full announcement here.
November 6, 2025
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