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Quantum Computers are the Future Nukes of the IT World
It is no wonder that the quantum computing investments in the United States, China, and elsewhere are ramping. …
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The Cloud is Where Quantum Competition Gets Real
At the dawn of the mainframe era, Thomas Watson is said to have remarked that perhaps only five such systems would ever be sold in the world and that perhaps, just one machine would be needed to solve the most intractable problems. …
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Quantum Simulation Work Blazes Trail for Hybrid Systems
The relationship between quantum computers and supercomputing will be more complementary than competitive in the coming years with quantum processors being the offload engines for some key workloads in materials science and other areas. …
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QISKit Developments Key to IBM Quantum Engagement
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference we detailed some of the major quantum computing development efforts, including updates from the Microsoft team on the Q# language, and the academic Project Q environment. …
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Fault Tolerance at Heart of Google’s Quantum Strategy
This morning at Google Next computer architecture pioneers, John Hennessey and David Patterson, remarked that even though it could be revolutionary, quantum computing is still at least a decade away. …
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Toward Open, Extensible Quantum Programming
As the rubber begins to meet the road for quantum computing, the conversation is shifting from one about the practicality of hardware to how future users will interface with quantum systems. …
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D-Wave CEO on Future of Quantum Simulations
Quantum systems will not replace traditional supercomputers anytime soon but for certain types of simulations, they will be far more efficient and scalable than classical machines, at least according to CEO of quantum computer maker D-Wave, Vern Brownell. …
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Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher
Mellanox got its start as one of the several suppliers of ASICs for the low latency InfiniBand protocol that was originally conceived as a kind of universal fabric to connect all devices in the datacenter. …
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Microsoft Builds Quantum Strategy Around Q#
There is no way to predict which quantum system will garner system share in the next years, but most large chip, system, and software companies are hedging their bets and establishing a quantum research effort in the form of hardware, simulations, or software stacks. …
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Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go
A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …