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The new Advantage supercomputer turned out to be millions of times more powerful than the iconic Frontier.
Researchers from the quantum computing company D-Wave have claimed to have reached an important milestone in the development of quantum computers, claiming that their quantum technology can solve real-world practical problems faster than any traditional computer.
Quantum computers, although they have enormous computing resources, previously could only be used for a number of specific tasks that have little in common with the tasks that people are used to solving on traditional computers.
So, D-Wave claims that their Advantage and Advantage 2 computers are capable of solving problems based on the Ising model, which would be prohibitively difficult to solve on a traditional computer. This discovery could make quantum computers commercially viable.
Researchers believe that the most powerful traditional supercomputer in the world, Frontier (OLCF-5), launched in 2022, would take millions of years to solve the proposed problems, while consuming so much electricity that such calculations on it would be commercially impractical.
Unlike the quantum computers produced by Google and other companies, D-Wave machines use the "Quantum Annealing" method. Some researchers call Advantage computers only a "quantum system simulator" and criticize them for their ability to solve only certain types of problems, but research has already shown the potential of their application in physics, logistics and the financial industry.
Josh Nunn of rival firm Orca Computing says the D-Wave results seem compelling and encouraging, as they suggest that mid-scale quantum computers may already be useful for certain tasks and are therefore a viable technology.
However, there are significant obstacles to the commercial use of quantum computers, including the need for highly qualified engineers and physicists to maintain and interpret the results of such machines.
Despite the current progress, the widespread adoption of quantum computers in the near future is unlikely to be expected, but sooner or later it will definitely happen.
Researchers from the quantum computing company D-Wave have claimed to have reached an important milestone in the development of quantum computers, claiming that their quantum technology can solve real-world practical problems faster than any traditional computer.
Quantum computers, although they have enormous computing resources, previously could only be used for a number of specific tasks that have little in common with the tasks that people are used to solving on traditional computers.
So, D-Wave claims that their Advantage and Advantage 2 computers are capable of solving problems based on the Ising model, which would be prohibitively difficult to solve on a traditional computer. This discovery could make quantum computers commercially viable.
Researchers believe that the most powerful traditional supercomputer in the world, Frontier (OLCF-5), launched in 2022, would take millions of years to solve the proposed problems, while consuming so much electricity that such calculations on it would be commercially impractical.
Unlike the quantum computers produced by Google and other companies, D-Wave machines use the "Quantum Annealing" method. Some researchers call Advantage computers only a "quantum system simulator" and criticize them for their ability to solve only certain types of problems, but research has already shown the potential of their application in physics, logistics and the financial industry.
Josh Nunn of rival firm Orca Computing says the D-Wave results seem compelling and encouraging, as they suggest that mid-scale quantum computers may already be useful for certain tasks and are therefore a viable technology.
However, there are significant obstacles to the commercial use of quantum computers, including the need for highly qualified engineers and physicists to maintain and interpret the results of such machines.
Despite the current progress, the widespread adoption of quantum computers in the near future is unlikely to be expected, but sooner or later it will definitely happen.
