Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a supercomputer 9k years

Re:Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a s... by yolo69420 on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:34AM (#31691541)

the important thing imo isn't the distinction of computing vs running experiment/simulating, but rather the pragmatical aspects around it: how easy is it to set up and execute.

if a quantum processor is sufficiently similar to regular computers and you can just run a couple of lines of code to actually simulate an arbitrary variety of different quantum systems, that will have mind boggling implications for large aspects of technology that deal with quantum systems (like material science).

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Re:Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a s... by subroutine on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:50AM (#31691645)

But the fraction of computing that deals with quantum systems is a tiny. I would like to see performance on a more neutral benchmark than Gaussian boson sampling. I mean, it's fine to include boson sampling but it would be nice to see QC performance on general hard problems improve over time as well.

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