IBM is making a bet on quantum computing:
IBM announced today an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems. "IBM Q" quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn't exist and the possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to ever be processed by classical computers.
IBM also announced today [...] The release of an upgraded simulator on the IBM Quantum Experience that can model circuits with up to 20 qubits. In the first half of 2017, IBM plans to release a full SDK (Software Development Kit) on the IBM Quantum Experience for users to build simple quantum applications and software programs.
[...] IBM intends to build IBM Q systems to expand the application domain of quantum computing. A key metric will be the power of a quantum computer expressed by the "Quantum Volume", which includes the number of qubits, quality of quantum operations, qubit connectivity and parallelism. As a first step to increase Quantum Volume, IBM aims at constructing commercial IBM Q systems with ~50 qubits in the next few years to demonstrate capabilities beyond today's classical systems, and plans to collaborate with key industry partners to develop applications that exploit the quantum speedup of the systems.
Also at BBC, USA Today, and Nature.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:07AM (2 children)
USA! USA!
Built in.... India? China? Who else do they outsource to?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:25AM
International Business Machines Corporation
Really makes your neurons tingle
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:58AM
If this isn't subject to export control, what is even the point of export control?
Heck, it probably ought to be classified.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday March 07 2017, @03:10AM (2 children)
By "commercialize", I'm guessing they're hoping for renting rather than selling. They really miss the money they get from the mainframe crowd. They bend them over and commercialize then without lube.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @03:16AM (1 child)
Thug niggers.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 07 2017, @04:53AM
IBM is blue, though, isn't it?
Like in "Big Blue Bubba"
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Tuesday March 07 2017, @09:25AM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:05AM
Figure it out yourself. You get 20 qubits.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:56AM (1 child)
IBM announces that will not be offering a 50Qbit quantum computer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Justin Case on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:12PM
Yes, but that was in a parallel universe that forked off of ours when they powered up the Qbit computer while the LHC was running.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday March 07 2017, @01:44PM
By the time Knuth completes TAOCP's volume 4 he'll have a quantum computer aided AI doing spell-check.
Incidentally: https://www.webofstories.com/play/donald.knuth/1 [webofstories.com]
compiling...
(Score: 2, Touché) by AssCork on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:10PM
Computers are like firearms; they can be used for good or evil, and you want to keep them out of the hands of stupid people.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:17PM
quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn't exist
That's taking journalistic licence a bit far, isn't it? I'm pretty sure quantum computers don't magic data out of nothing.
Anyway, what is this thing? Is it an actual quantum computer, or is it a simulation? Or is the 20 qubit simulator meant to be like a demo for the real thing?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk