E-Mail BOLOGNA, ITALY and BURNABY, B.C. (May 11, 2021) - CINECA, the Italian inter-university consortium and one of the world's leading global supercomputing centers, and D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced a formal collaboration to offer Italian universities, researchers, and developers expanded access to practical quantum computing technology and resources through D-Wave's Leap™ quantum cloud service. CINECA, which is made up of 69 Italian universities, 25 national research institutions, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Universities and Research, will benefit from expanded, real-time access to the Leap quantum cloud service. This access includes D-Wave's hybrid quantum/classical solvers, which leverage both quantum solutions and best-in-class classical algorithms to run large-scale business-critical problems. With real-time access to quantum computers via the cloud, the Italian and international scientific community have the opportunity to further quantum education, publication, and R&D, while boosting the development of real-world quantum applications.