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I just watched this video. As a computer scientist who spent much of my career at Convex, a supercomputing company, I enjoyed this very much. Convex worked on some pretty substantial problems, including composite fluid dynamics, chemistry research modeling (Bayer Drug) and some amazing linear algebra expressions (Rice U and Purdue). Some calculations, even on super computers took days or even weeks of computation. We always wanted to find a better way to facilitate super computing. We built vector arrays, pipelined instruction sets and various other highly parallel constructs but some problems were as this presenter said, just too difficult. Imagine thousands or millions of variables and millions of equations with quadratics in them. Solutions abound, but finding the most efficient, least costly, or fastest is a challenge.
In any case, I was impressed that IBM put up their Quantum computer to be accessed by the public.
Thanks for posting this.
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I understood this! Pretty cool. Thanks Dwight.
Want to play with a quantum computer??
The middle column is the public domain quantum computers.
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