hybrid model<\/a>. This approach will allow researchers to advance research on fundamental chemistry problems and other algorithms, IBM said.<\/p>\n The company is moving toward a model that blends high performance computing (HPC) with quantum computing, \u201cwhich is generally the way utility quantum computing is going,” Horvath said. As quantum has an advantage over classical devices on certain problems like optimization or graph coloring, the technologies can work together to solve problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe classical HPC system will work on most of the problem, farming out parts of the work to the quantum computer where it has a chance at a better-than-classical answer, then combining that back with the ongoing HPC system,” Horvath explained. \u201cThis is the current way quantum computers are used in most cases.”<\/p>\n
Quantum computers don\u2019t consistently show an advantage over classical devices, Horvath conceded. However, \u201cvery compelling developments in noise reduction and error correction” over the past five years have helped machines return accurate results more consistently.<\/p>\n
The analyst believes these improvements will bring quantum computers into a more widespread use over the next few years. He likened the progression to artificial intelligence, which \u201cmoved very rapidly from a niche technology into a dependable technology in a similar amount of time.”<\/p>\n
Like other companies, IBM\u2019s goal is to build increasingly bigger and more precise machines with the hopes this will lead to wide-scale deployment of the technology. Speaking to Barron\u2019s earlier this month, Jay Gambetta, vice president of IBM Quantum, laid out the company\u2019s vision for quantum dominance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always focused on what we need to learn to be able to scale,” Gambetta said. \u201cOur secret weapon is that we make a new device every 17 days. You focus on how you can increase the rate at which you can learn, and you get very disciplined at that.”<\/p>\n
IBM hopes to pioneer a fault-tolerant device before the end of the decade. Gambetta is sure the company can meet its target. \u201cWe always had a plan. I finally feel like we have an execution,” the scientist said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to bring this quantum computer into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, International Business Machines said that it had deployed an IBM Quantum System Two at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,88754,34310,88753,3358,88755,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-224892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer","10":"tag-heron-processor","11":"tag-ibm-quantum-system-two","12":"tag-quantum-computing","13":"tag-riken-center-for-computational-science","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114768622506040904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}