Google plans to introduce cloud computing service for quantum computing.
Google is going to open online access to its quantum machines for scientists and researchers of artificial intelligence problems. With this, the IT giant wants to "spur" the development of new tools for its technology. Over time, the company plans to create a powerful cloud service using quantum computers.
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According to Bloomberg, the IT giant has formed a new laboratory at the Embryonic Quantum Data Center, and is also preparing a project for ProjectQ, an open source project for writing software for quantum computers. In other words, Google is already considering the possibility of practical application of quantum computing.
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"The company is pretty straightforward about creating quantum" hardware "and launching a cloud computing service based on it," said Peter McMahon, a quantum computing expert at Stanford University.
According to experts, quantum computing in the future can revolutionize the IT industry, since they can solve problems [so far only a certain range of them] much faster than modern machines are capable of. Quantum computers store information in the so-called qubits, encoding data as 0 and 1 at the same time. This allows you to operate with multiple states at once.
Scientists hope that full-featured quantum computers will find application in many different areas. Sandia National Laboratories technical officer Robin Blume-Kohout believes that quantum computing will help improve the performance of solar panels, create medicines and even fertilizers.
For the first time in Google, they started thinking about quantum computing back in 2013, when the company bought one of the early D-Wave quantum computers. And in 2014, the IT giant has already announced the beginning of the development of its own quantum machines. According to the developers, the system will be able to prove its superiority over classic computers by the end of this year.
However, Google is not the only company engaged in the creation of quantum computers. IBM is already offering access to a specialized quantum computing platform, bringing a 16-qubit quantum computer online. Over the next 5 years, the company also intends to create a 50-qubit quantum system, which will have to “circumvent” all modern classical computers. IBM is also working to create a universal quantum computer for the corporate segment. Microsoft is also interested in this area.
Professor Seth Lloyd (MIT) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology notes that today quantum startups "grow like mushrooms." One of them is Rigetti Computing, which raised more than $ 69 million to build hardware and software for a quantum computer. Its founder, Chad Rigetti, sees technology getting as hot as AI, but convinced it is still just beginning.
“Despite everything, this industry is still in its infancy, ” he said . “So far, no one has created a quantum computer that really works.”
Probably the first company to make a viable business in quantum computing will have a large (albeit short-lived) competitive advantage. But, according to Professor Lloyd, quantum computers will find their mass use only when the number of qubits reaches one hundred.
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/ photo Spiros Vathis CCAccording to Bloomberg, the IT giant has formed a new laboratory at the Embryonic Quantum Data Center, and is also preparing a project for ProjectQ, an open source project for writing software for quantum computers. In other words, Google is already considering the possibility of practical application of quantum computing.
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"The company is pretty straightforward about creating quantum" hardware "and launching a cloud computing service based on it," said Peter McMahon, a quantum computing expert at Stanford University.
According to experts, quantum computing in the future can revolutionize the IT industry, since they can solve problems [so far only a certain range of them] much faster than modern machines are capable of. Quantum computers store information in the so-called qubits, encoding data as 0 and 1 at the same time. This allows you to operate with multiple states at once.
Scientists hope that full-featured quantum computers will find application in many different areas. Sandia National Laboratories technical officer Robin Blume-Kohout believes that quantum computing will help improve the performance of solar panels, create medicines and even fertilizers.
For the first time in Google, they started thinking about quantum computing back in 2013, when the company bought one of the early D-Wave quantum computers. And in 2014, the IT giant has already announced the beginning of the development of its own quantum machines. According to the developers, the system will be able to prove its superiority over classic computers by the end of this year.
However, Google is not the only company engaged in the creation of quantum computers. IBM is already offering access to a specialized quantum computing platform, bringing a 16-qubit quantum computer online. Over the next 5 years, the company also intends to create a 50-qubit quantum system, which will have to “circumvent” all modern classical computers. IBM is also working to create a universal quantum computer for the corporate segment. Microsoft is also interested in this area.
Professor Seth Lloyd (MIT) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology notes that today quantum startups "grow like mushrooms." One of them is Rigetti Computing, which raised more than $ 69 million to build hardware and software for a quantum computer. Its founder, Chad Rigetti, sees technology getting as hot as AI, but convinced it is still just beginning.
“Despite everything, this industry is still in its infancy, ” he said . “So far, no one has created a quantum computer that really works.”
Probably the first company to make a viable business in quantum computing will have a large (albeit short-lived) competitive advantage. But, according to Professor Lloyd, quantum computers will find their mass use only when the number of qubits reaches one hundred.
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- Building Qualified and Secured Infrastructures Based on VMware Solutions
- KUBIT: the organization of integrated IT solutions using IaaS-cloud "IT-GRAD"
- How to add flexibility to a virtual infrastructure using VMware vDS
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/333688/
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