The next big barrier for supercomputing is punching through 100 petaflops peak performance, which frankly could be done in a heartbeat if someone had a few hundred millions dollars lying around. And now that Google and NASA are monkeying around with a quantum computer, thoughts are turning to how a QC might be deployed to …

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Monday 24th June 2013 15:16 GMT Destroy All Monsters

"Quantum computing is easy if you leave the physics out of it"

> reading up on this quantum computing gobbledygook

You could do worse than check out:

PHYS771 - Quantum Computing Since Democritus, a course held by Scott Aaronson.

Apparently now out in book format, too.

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Monday 24th June 2013 15:20 GMT Suricou Raven

How do you rank them?

If quantum computers can be made practical, there will be call for the 'quantum top 500.' What would you measure the capability of a quantum computer in?

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1. Monday 24th June 2013 15:49 GMT Destroy All Monsters
  
  Re: How do you rank them?
  
  Real-time till a "highly probable correct" solution to a problem has been found?
  
  This would also be a good criterium for classical computers. One would just increase the size of the problem linearly each year (in case of QM, exponentially...)
  
  Suffer the little machines!
  
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2. Monday 24th June 2013 23:02 GMT Simon Brady
  
  Re: How do you rank them?
  
  I propose a new unit of unquantifiable performance, the Wally:
  
  http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-04-17/
  
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