On September 23, 2025, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking inaugurated its second quantum computer, VLQ, in Ostrava, Czechia. Hosted and operated by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VLQ was supplied by IQM Quantum Computers and is based on superconducting qubit technology.
According to the EuroHPC JU, VLQ cost approximately €5 million, co-funded equally by EuroHPC JU and the LUMI-Q consortium, a collaboration of 13 partners from eight countries: Czechia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The ceremony was attended by officials from the EuroHPC JU Governing Board.
VLQ was the second EuroHPC quantum computer to come online following PIAST-Q in Poland. Six quantum computers in total had been procured by the Joint Undertaking, along with two analogue quantum simulators under the HPCQS project.