IBM Quantum Computers Now Finish Some Tasks In Hours, Not Months (engadget.com) 34
IBM has found a way to combine a new program execution environment, Qiskit, with a balance of "classical" and quantum computing to deliver a 100 times speedup for tasks that depend on iterative circuit execution. Computations that take months now will take mere hours, IBM said. Engadget reports: Qiskit by itself allows more circuits to run at a "much faster" rate, and can store quantum programs so that other users can run them. However, it also uploads programs to conventional hardware sitting next to the quantum machines. Before you ask, this isn't really cheating -- the move is meant to cut the latency between a user's computer and the quantum chip.
IBM expects to release Qiskit sometime in 2021. Its roadmap also has quantum systems handling a wider range of circuits, and thus a wider range of computing challenges, by 2022. New control systems and libraries in 2023 will help IBM reach its goal of running systems with 1,000 or more qubits, taking the company closer to a "quantum advantage" where the technology can handle at least some tasks more efficiently or cost-effectively than traditional hardware.
IBM expects to release Qiskit sometime in 2021. Its roadmap also has quantum systems handling a wider range of circuits, and thus a wider range of computing challenges, by 2022. New control systems and libraries in 2023 will help IBM reach its goal of running systems with 1,000 or more qubits, taking the company closer to a "quantum advantage" where the technology can handle at least some tasks more efficiently or cost-effectively than traditional hardware.
AMDs gone quantum. (Score:4, Funny)
At what point can I order an AMD quantum CPU?
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QCs require cryogenic cooling.
In the future, it is likely that you will use them. But you won't own them. Instead, you will access QCAAS in the cloud.
QCAAS = Quantum Computing As A Service
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AMD does real computing devices, not ones based on fantasy and misrepresentation.
What do these quantum beasties... (Score:4, Informative)
Actually do?
As in, all this claims of amazing speed etc needs a context.
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They fixed the modpoints glitch. There is another one that the jews/chicoms are using, and I haven't cracked it yet. I am fairly certain that BIZX got their funding from the Chinese or are owned by the Chinese. Did you notice about three years ago how there was this giant shift
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$1 will unlock the secrets.
https://www.humblebundle.com/b... [humblebundle.com]
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What do these quantum beasties...Actually do?
As in, all this claims of amazing speed etc needs a context.
They do math.
Certain very specific types of math, but math none the less.
Problems that can have many potential answers but only one of those potential answers is the correct one.
In the old pen and paper way, it would be akin to solving each of those potential answers individually, then checking them individually to see if one is right or not.
An entirely unrealistic example, but imagine the problem to solve is "I wrote down a thousand numbers, each from 0 to 99. When added the total is 54776. What are the
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If the question is, "Of all the possible combinations that add up to 54776 what is the particular combination I wrote down?" then the question is one for a psychic.
Am I correctly hearing you say that the QC is able to read your mind? *THAT* would be something.
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What do these quantum beasties... Actually do?
They quantify the quanta.
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It will not happen. They have nothing but basically faked demos.
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You can already lease time on D-Wave's quantum computer (I believe there's a waiting list). Unless you want to pay for a refrigeration unit larger than most apartments that's going to be the way most people would access quantum computing for a long time.
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it'll be in the "cloud" and the average person will just hand wave that it's a "server".
And even in that scenario 50 years later, there will still be people saying that quantum computers are impractical and have no commercial appeal. Good old silicon forever.
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And even in that scenario 50 years later, there will still be people saying that quantum computers are impractical and have no commercial appeal. Good old silicon forever.
That reminds me of audiophiles who complained about move from tube to solid state amplifiers in the 60's and 70's:
"solid state amplifiers are impractical and have no commercial appeal."
If you ask audiophiles today, they will still tell you that tube amplifiers sound better.
Human beings are extremely good with innovation. Just give them some tool, and they will discover new uses for it. This happened with PCs back in the 80's. When folks start getting easy access to a Quantum Computing cloud, they wil
But can they finish blockchain ? (Score:1)
'Cuz if they can't, IBM will lay them off.
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> 'Cuz if they can't, IBM will lay them off.
Good, they'll be better off in the long run.
and the bench to layoff time goes from 3M to 8H (Score:2)
and the bench to layoff time goes from 3M to 8H
So that one day better be your final paper work day for the next project
Still completely worthless (Score:5, Interesting)
All these "tasks" are vastly simplified mock-ups. QCs cannot do any real computations.
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QCs cannot do any real computations.
Now, or ever? I think you are currently correct, but there are some very smart people who believe this will be a big deal.
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Now? Definitely not. Ever? That is completely unclear. There are several ways this could fail. The first one is obvious: This stuff scales abysmally bad, probably inverse exponential. With that, it is possible that some small computations will eventually become feasible, but that QCs will never scale to useful sizes. The second one is more obscure: QCs of useful size need precision in the quantum effect behaviors that goes massively beyond any physical measures ever made. It is quite possible that instead o
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The IEEE disagrees.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/comp... [ieee.org]
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Of course it's unclear, it's engineering, not magic.
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Nope. Some IEEE author disagrees. That is a bit different.
what IBM has (Score:1)
So two 5-qubit processors and a 16-qubit processor... *yawn*, real title should have been "IBM Quantum Computers Now Finish Some Tasks in Hours Not Months That Would Take Your Grandma's PC Mere Microseconds."
640k RAM (Score:2)
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IBM's quantum computer can't do AOL, but Grandma's machine still yells 'you've got mail!' after decades
What tasks? (Score:2)