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Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud

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Op donderdag 5 mei 2016 02:14:49 UTC+2 schreef Sam Wormley:
> On 5/4/16 6:04 PM, Double-A wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 5:59:13 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
> >> IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/ibm-puts-a-quantum-processor-in-the-cloud
> >>
> >>
> >>> IBM announced today that it is making one of its superconducting
> >>> quantum processors accessible over the Internet. 
> >
> > So, what are the advantages?
> >
> > Double-A
> >
> 
> DuckDuckGo is your friend.
> 

Yes correct what are the advantages?
Quantum computers (Quantum mechanics) is "serious" business, 
but what can you do with a QC of 5 Qubits?
Can you bring each Qubit in a superposition state? 
and how do you test that?
Can you also "combine" Qubits?
A QC of 5 Qubits is almost nothing and still a far way to go
to do any serious business like factorization of large numbers.

To see what is currently possible on a standard PC please study:
http://users.telenet.be/nicvroom/shor-findprim-QC.htm
The algorithm used is based on the "shor" algorithm. 
In this particular implementation always the correct solution 
comes up. For a QC this is a ?.
In this case 4 parallel processors are used.
The current standard is already 8.
The people working on QC's have a hard way to have more Qubits
available than the # of parallel processors on a state of the art PC.

Nicolaas Vroom

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IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 07:59 -0500
  Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-04 16:04 -0700
    Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 19:14 -0500
      Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-05-05 00:44 +0000
      Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud Nicolaas Vroom <nicolaas.vroom@pandora.be> - 2016-05-08 05:50 -0700
        Re: IBM Puts a Quantum Processor in the Cloud Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 08:25 -0500

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