Fault-tolerant quantum hardware developer Alice & Bob has entered into a strategic research partnership with the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) to integrate its cat qubit software stack into High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Building on the June 2026 unveiling of Alice & Bob’s first physical quantum processing unit, Helium, the initiative aims to establish operational pathways for hybrid supercomputing workflows and develop domain-specific algorithms for early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (eFTQC) architectures by 2030.
Under the technical collaboration, Alice & Bob’s quantum software stack will be integrated into Eviden’s (an Atos business) Bull Qaptiva™ quantum application platform. Leveraging CEA’s expertise in hybrid HPC-quantum system orchestration, the Qaptiva framework allows developers to compile code across heterogeneous backends—enabling seamless, hardware-agnostic execution across on-premises supercomputers and cloud-hosted quantum processors.
| [ Alice & Bob & CEA Hybrid HPC-Quantum Integration Scope ] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Software & Middleware Layer | R&D Research Focus | Target Industrial Applications |
| • Integration via Bull Qaptiva™ Platform | • Condensed Matter & Many-Body Physics | • Advanced Materials Discovery |
| • Hardware-Agnostic Compilation | • Early FTQC Algorithms (Target: ~2030) | • Quantum Chemistry & Molecular Dynamics |
| • CEA Hybrid HPC Orchestration | • Fault-Tolerant Cat Qubit Mapping | • Complex Industrial Physical Simulations |
In parallel, Alice & Bob and the CEA will launch a joint research program targeting many-body quantum physics problems. Designed to exploit the hardware efficiency of cat qubits—which protect quantum information against bit-flip errors autonomously—the algorithmic pipeline focuses on simulating condensed matter systems to solve complex problems in materials science, chemistry, and industrial physics.
Review the official announcement via Alice & Bob here, inspect platform architecture specifications on Bull Qaptiva HPC here and Bull Qaptiva Remote here, and examine our prior coverage of Alice & Bob’s On-Premise Helium System Launch here and the Bull and Alice & Bob HPC Integration Alliance here.
September 17, 2026