[HN Gopher] AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Co...
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       AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More
       Efficient
        
       Author : punnerud
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2021-09-04 19:30 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | throwaway888abc wrote:
       | Upvoted and When the teleport devices are finally coming ?
       | /weekend rant
        
       | slabity wrote:
       | As someone who knows little of quantum computing, can anyone
       | explain what the article means by 'Multi-SIMD' in a conventional
       | computing context?
        
         | salawat wrote:
         | ...Taking a shot in the dark here, because I opened the article
         | expecting some writer mixed up MIMD and SIMD, but there might
         | be some nuance here that makes the Multi-SIMD make sense.
         | 
         | Single Instruction Multi Data refers to implementing processing
         | logic that performs the same operation on multiple data. The
         | article seems to be using Multi-SIMD to describe a state of
         | affairs where the processor is capable of determining data-
         | dependence, and splitting out dependency coupled SIMD
         | instructions from non. Those non-coupled instructions get
         | scheduled to run in parallel, but then you're left with these
         | dependent ones to go through serially.
         | 
         | Given Quantum teleportation being mentioned, the only thing
         | that even starts to make sense to me is that you're
         | implementing some sort of coupling via entanglement whereby
         | state put in place in the teleporter gets rectified and
         | instantiated in the receiver the moment the prior calculation
         | is done, skipping wire propagation delays. That sounds way too
         | handwavey and dubious for me to even pretend it sounds
         | reasonable.
         | 
         | Be kinda cool if it was pulled off though. There's be a bunch
         | of seriously wicked innovations possible if you could feasibly
         | delete a good portion of intermediary interconnects and replace
         | it with spooky action at a distance while still getting
         | reliable results.
        
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