Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

Re:Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Pr... by ehsankia on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:18AM (#21335502)

Does it scale linearly? Is it 5 days on a half as good super computer? They just need to show that it can be done in any reasonable finite amount of time, not 2.5 days.

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Re:Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Pr... by earenndil on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:07PM (#21341314)

The main bottleneck is memory/storage capacity, not speed. Beyond that (if you have the requisite storage capacity and bandwidth), yes: if you have half the FLOPS and double the time, you get the same result.

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Re:Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Pr... by sipjca on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:45PM (#21341483)

Is this the case? I thought that parallel speedup is not linear. so it might actually not be 2x slower but maybe 1.5x or something depending on IPC overhead and all that

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