> the platform can already solve problems that were considered too complex for classical computer systems to handle
Uhm, quantum computers can be simulated by a classic computer with exponential slowdown. So the speedup can be no more than on the order of 2^17 = 131072. But I think it's fair to assume that a single operation on the quantum computer is much much slower than state of the art classic computers. So doesn't it seems doubtful that they can actually do anything faster with this than with a classic computer? I would think that we have to get in the high 20's to low 30's of qbits before it can actually beat a classic computer or a cluster of them.
As far as I can tell, IBM has not unveiled anything at all, and this Engadget journalist is just misinterpreting an IBM statement on "quantum volume." Does anyone have a link to an IBM release? In particular, it looks like the public can still only access a five-qubit device.
I missed the first release of 5 qubit processor since the IBM website has so much marketing jargon. I find some papers in arXiv where they use the processor. Is there any reference demonstrating that this is a true quantum processor? I'd like to see some non-classical scaling with respect to N, etc.
Wait, so how I can write quantum instructions and run them through IBM's cloud? How long before someone gets Shor's algorithm running and destroys the world?
I thought it was funny, that and the one where gcc doesn't tell you if your program compiled or not on quantum computers, until you observe the object file it is both syntactically correct and uncompilable.
I was about to give a bunch of praise for raising its ability to reach the community and create a very engaging video but then they pulled out an introduction page[0] that does not work on firefox (the SVGs for the superposition states render as blanks).
[+] [-] poizan42|8 years ago|reply
Uhm, quantum computers can be simulated by a classic computer with exponential slowdown. So the speedup can be no more than on the order of 2^17 = 131072. But I think it's fair to assume that a single operation on the quantum computer is much much slower than state of the art classic computers. So doesn't it seems doubtful that they can actually do anything faster with this than with a classic computer? I would think that we have to get in the high 20's to low 30's of qbits before it can actually beat a classic computer or a cluster of them.
[+] [-] EvgeniyZh|8 years ago|reply
[+] [-] greeneggs|8 years ago|reply
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/community?channe...
[+] [-] ajdlinux|8 years ago|reply
The public access machine is available through a beta invitation request program - https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/account/beta-acc...
(disclosure: I work for IBM Systems, not related to Q though)
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[+] [-] riffraff|8 years ago|reply
SDK
https://github.com/IBM/qiskit-sdk-py
Online Editor
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/editor
[+] [-] snorrah|8 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] ktta|8 years ago|reply
Here's the non-AMP version: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/17/ibm-quantum-q-experience...
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[+] [-] msl09|8 years ago|reply
So close.
[0] - https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/tutorial?section...