Very cool, but can it run flight simulator at 60fps?
New superconducting quantum processor outpaces world’s fastest supercomputer by quadrillions
Submitted 5 weeks ago by pranjalmalewar@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Eczpurt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Only when that Flight Simulator is running in an emulator inside of Doom.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
New superconducting quantum processor outpaces world’s fastest supercomputer by quadrillions at one worthless computation.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Again, it has been shown that a quantum computer is better than a normal computer in solving worthless quantum benchmarks. Hurray.
I still wait for any quantum computer solving a real problem like those normal computers solve every day.
anonvurr@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Give it some time, the progress is pretty fast
Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Like fusion power, just 20-50 years away.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
outperformed the latest results published by Google in October of last year by 6 orders of magnitude.
Just imagine a new car being 1 million times faster than the fastest car before…
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But it can only drive 100 meters.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
And only on roads made of short cake
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
12 parsecs.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
And is housed in a 3D printed graphene encasing
futatorius@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
And is the size of a jumbo jet but with zero cargo or passenger capacity.
oce@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
The abstract of the scientific article
Random circuit sampling is a problem designed to showcase quantum computing strength. Random circuit sampling is the simulation of the outcome of many randomly generated quantum circuits. So, having a computer based on quantum phenomenon, such as superposition and entanglement, is obviously a big help, as opposed to having to imperfectly simulate this on a classical computer. So much that classical super computer cannot simulate this problem in a reasonable human time anymore. They call this “quantum superiority”.
It’s like giving a math problem to a math professor and a philosophy professor, and then demonstrating how much better the math professor was at solving this problem.
But it’s a good benchmark to compare quantum computers between them.
Overall, it’s still useless to the average server or gamer.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
TL;DR:
futatorius@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah, the comparison is pointless. Supercomputers are general-purpose computers. Quantum computers aren’t. It’s like saying “look, bullet is faster than semi-truck!” when someone cares about cargo-carrying capacity.