Google and NASA Contracting Bristlecone’s Quantum Computing Services. Google is in contract with NASA to test for quantum supremacy of its Bristlecone 72-qubit quantum computer.
Capturing the Commoner’s Eye: Too Expensive, but Getting There via Cloud. $2000 per hour is a rough quantum computing cost-estimate. Affordable by only the
Learning is a continuous process (Einstein). Google put together Cirq, a quantum computing programming language. Cirq is intended to permit programming noisy, mid-scale, quantum computers. Not a coincidence, but it will permit programming Goggle’s 72-qubit Bristlecone via QAaS. Further, “Cirq will allow us to: Fine tune control over Quantum circuits, specify gate behavior using native gates, place gates appropriately on the device & schedule the timing of these gates.” To help make sense of Cirq and quantum, the below link will take you to a layperson’s piece.
Though quantum computers have yet to become reality, there are a number of basic facts one should understand…
The Aussie’s have much to be proud of when it comes to quantum computing research efforts.
Google is gearing up to make Bristlecone available as a cloud computing platform. Bristlecone, Google’s nascent quantum computing platform, will be programmable with Cirq and OpenFermion-Cirq. Cirq, Google’s newly released open-source developer platform, permits quantum algorithm development without requiring a background in quantum physics. It’s twin, OpenFermion-Cirq is tailored to creating chemistry applications; a space likely to be used with quantum computing’s first wave of efforts.
Volkswagen has reported the use of quantum computing in auto-battery development. In conjunction with Google and D-Wave, VW simulated molecular interactions in batteries.
Rigetti, D-Wave, IBM, Intel, and Google, have achieved milestones toward a quantum computer which performs computations incapable of being performed by classical systems.
“Hello World” is perhaps the most basic of messages sent via classical computers. But what is the maximum “hardness” of a task a classical system might tackle that is also the simplest a quantum system may solve?
Recent comments from Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin keep quantum computing in the company’s spotlight. Add to quantum computing, AI and cryptocurrency are also high on Google’s agenda.
