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posted by mrpg on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-and-bad dept.

Alibaba reckons the world needs another quantum computer in the cloud, so it's opened up access to an 11-qubit system.

The system landed almost exactly a year after IBM announced its five-qubit quantum offering. In November last year, Big Blue embiggened the system to 20 qubits.

So as well as being the second cloudy quantum computer on the market, Alibaba's offering is also the second-fastest, as the company correctly claimed in its announcement.

The Alibaba offering is a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and is cooled to as low as 10 milli-Kelvin[sic] (-273 °C).

Alibaba's announcement did not, however, detail the tools or APIs customers will use to interact with the system.

[Update: "milli-Kelvin" is all kinds of wrong, but appeared in the original source and is quoted here verbatim -- hence the now-added "[sic]". For more information on the origins and use of the term, see the entry on Wikipedia. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:35AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:35AM (#648453)

    Offtopic, but I would like to know...

      if kelvin is not capitalized, does the same hold true for centigrade, rankine, and fahrenheit? Same with volts and amperes, or any unit of measure?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:28PM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:28PM (#648502) Journal

    I thought fahrenheit was a German cuss word.

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