Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit (zdnet.com) 31
Microsoft is releasing a free preview version of its Quantum Development Kit. "The kit includes the Q# programming language and compiler and a local quantum computing simulator, and is fully integrated with Visual Studio," reports ZDNet. "There's also an Azure-based simulator that allows developers to simulate more than 40 logical qubits of computing power, plus documentation libraries, and sample programs, officials said in their December 11 announcement." From the report: Quantum computers are designed to process in parallel, thus enabling new types of applications across a variety of workloads. They are designed to harness the physics of subatomic particles to provide a different way to store data and solve problems compared to conventional computers, as my ZDNet colleague Tony Baer explains. The result is that quantum computers could solve certain high-performance-computing problems more efficiently. Microsoft officials have said applications that developers create for use with the quantum simulator ultimately will work on a quantum computer, which Microsoft is in the process of developing. Microsoft's goal is to build out a full quantum computing system, including both the quantum computing hardware and the related full software stack.
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Yeah, as I've said before commenting on similar articles, Microsoft software has been based on quantum mechanics for as long as I can remember. Users of Microsoft software are constantly struggling with the uncertainty principle and can often make systems collapse merely by observing them.
Re:Are we going to see... (Score:4, Funny)
Are we going to see...the Q screen of death?
Yes and no.
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When it stops replying to pings on the network it will be in a state of both crashed and not crashed until you look at the monitor.
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He's the best president since Regan, IMHO.
Donald Regan was chief of staff, never president.
Re: Donald Trump (Score:1)
What you talking about willis
Why would he do that? He's spawned a new Anthem! (Score:1)
https://www.reddit.com/r/uspol... [reddit.com]
Finally! (Score:2)
Now, I can finally write that killer app for my quantum transportation entanglement FTL! I've literally had this thing for ages, but the app store is empty, and before this there was no way to side load anything better than cat pictures.
Re: Finally! (Score:1)
I know, with all my Q# side projects the recruiters looking for people with 5+ years of q hash-box, are falling over themselves offering me jobs
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anything better than cat pictures
You mean like this one [der-postillon.com] (site is in German)?
Umm, No. (Score:1)
There are myriads of Open Source alternatives (Score:2)
Most of them integrated with Python so that you can use them in Jupyter. Many of them are included in this free AMI distro [bayesforge.com].
And unlike MS the IBM, Rigetti and D-Wave tools let you connect to real quantum computing hardware.