With quantum computing simulator, Microsoft offers a sneak peek into future of computing by Allison Linn.
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Next week, at the SuperComputing 2015 conference in Austin, Texas, Dave Wecker, a lead architect on the QuArC team, will discuss the recent public release on GitHub of a suite of tools that allows computer scientists to simulate a quantum computer’s capabilities. That’s a crucial step in building the tools needed to run actual quantum computers.“This is the closest we can get to running a quantum computer without having one,” said Wecker, who has helped develop the software.
The software is called Language-Integrated Quantum Operations, or LIQUi|>. The funky characters at the end refer to how a quantum operation is written in mathematical terms.
The researchers are hoping that, using LIQUi|>, computer scientists at Microsoft and other academic and research institutions will be able to perfect the algorithms they need to efficiently use a quantum computer even as the computers themselves are simultaneously being developed.
“We can actually debut algorithms in advance of running them on the computer,” Svore said.
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As of today, November 13, 2015, LIQUi|> has only one (1) hit at GitHub. Will try back next week to see what the numbers look like then.
You won’t have a quantum computer by the holidays but you may have created your first quantum algorithm by then.
Enjoy!