CSC

CSC – IT Center for Science is a Finnish state-owned, non-profit computing centre headquartered in Espoo that supplies high-performance computing, data management and networking services to academia, research institutes and industry. Its quantum role is infrastructural rather than hardware development: it operates the LUMI EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer in Kajaani and is the planned host site for LUMI-Q, an IQM-built superconducting quantum computer to be integrated with LUMI, while providing users with emulation, programming environments and support to run quantum workloads. CSC is therefore an access and operations provider in the European quantum ecosystem, not a developer of qubits or control electronics.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 12 September 2026

Headquarters: Espoo, Finland
Founded: 1971
Status: Private

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Coverage

Quantum Computing Report11 September 2026

LUMI AI Factory Selects IQM’s Halocene Roadmap for Europe’s First Superconducting Logical Qubit System

IQM Quantum Computers will deploy LUMI-IQ, a superconducting quantum computer designed to support logical qubits, at CSC's Kajaani, Finland data center. The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is co-funding the system, which will be integrated into the LUMI AI Factory as a hybrid HPC-AI-quantum platform. Delivery is planned in three phases through 2029, beginning with 150 physical qubits.

OutlookPlausible

European researchers could begin co-scheduling quantum and classical HPC jobs within the existing LUMI environment in the next two years, testing hybrid algorithms before the full logical-qubit system is complete.

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