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IBM quantum computers now finish some tasks in hours, not months

The systems have a little help from conventional computers.
Jon Fingas
J. Fingas|02.04.21
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As much as quantum computers have improved, they're far from taking
the reins from conventional computers in some situations. IBM might
have made them more practical, however. The tech pioneer has found a
way to combine a new program execution environment, Qiskit, with a
balance of "classical" and quantum computing to deliver a 100 times
speedup for tasks that depend on iterative circuit execution.
Computations that take months now will take mere hours, IBM said.

Qiskit by itself allows more circuits to run at a "much faster" rate,
and can store quantum programs so that other users can run them.
However, it also uploads programs to conventional hardware sitting
next to the quantum machines. Before you ask, this isn't really
cheating-- the move is meant to cut the latency between a user's
computer and the quantum chip.

IBM expects to release Qiskit sometime in 2021. Its roadmap also has
quantum systems handling a wider range of circuits, and thus a wider
range of computing challenges, by 2022. New control systems and
libraries in 2023 will help IBM reach its goal of running systems
with 1,000 or more qubits, taking the company closer to a "quantum
advantage" where the technology can handle at least some tasks more
efficiently or cost-effectively than traditional hardware.

The company was quick to acknowledge that there's a long road ahead.
It likened current quantum technology to the earliest computers --
that is, they required a lot of manual programming and took ages to
complete workloads that now seem trivial. Ideally, Qiskit and
improved hardware will lead to a day when anyone can put quantum
computing to use, even if it's through a distant mainframe.

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