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Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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That is a great article. I only got through maybe two thirds of it, but I'll go through the rest when i have better focus.
So... it sounds like practical use will be something like a QPU, quantum processing unit. When you need highly parallelized, probability-based, shallow computation, it would be good to use a QPU. Data preparation or more step-wise operations would go to a traditional CPU/GPU. I can see how this would be useful.
yeah! if something can be expressed in an algorithm that can be implemented using qbits, it can run there. 99% of computing will be done on your regular cpu, but for certain problems a regular cpu would take years to solve, you can run it through the multiverse for a quick answer.