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Toshiba Touts Algorithm That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer
- zyang 7y agoWhat if you run the algorithm on a supercomputer...
- klyrs 7y agoMy understanding is that it's an ASIC for a modified simulated annealing algorithm, not a supercomputer. OTOH simulated annealing doesn't hugely benefit from parallelism, so the comparison is a bit of a snore. Edit: my mistake, that's a different Toshiba offering. Sibling comment has a better description and a citation.
- inasio 7y agoIt's more a QUBO solver (ala D-Wave) that can be efficiently parallelized on GPUs, they were able to "solve" a QUBO with 100K variables on 8 GPUs [1], where before people had solved at most problems with 10K variables. [1] https://phys.org/news/2019-04-toshiba-breakthrough-algorithm-world-fastest.html https://phys.org/news/2019-04-toshiba-breakthrough-algorithm...
- anfractuosity 7y agoAlso https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/sbm/sbm.htm https://www.toshiba-sol.co.jp/en/pro/sbm/sbm.htm seems to give a link where you can play with it via AWS as far as I can tell.
- GuB-42 7y agoYes, the title makes no sense. Like "this recipe is better than a gas stove", "this movie is more enjoyable than a TV" or "this key is more secure than a safe". We are not comparing the same thing.
- kyle-rb 7y ago>a desktop PC algorithm that crunches market data faster than today’s most advanced supercomputers It sounds like by "desktop PC algorithm" they mean a classical algorithm that can run on classical computers, and by "advanced supercomputers" they mean a quantum algorithm running on quantum computers.
- msla 7y agoI think you're imputing more meaning to their article than it possesses. Just let the nice word-noise wash over you, and acknowledge that Bloomberg publishes lightly-edited press releases.
- latenightcoding 7y agoCompanies manufacturing these type of machines get away with these insane claims by benchmarking probabilistic algorithms against exact solvers.
- _bxg1 7y agoTechnically you could say that about the entire field of machine-learning. That doesn't mean it isn't hugely useful.
- _bxg1 7y agoInteresting subject matter, but I have to say, "Algorithm That's Faster Than a Supercomputer" is one of the dumbest headlines I've seen in a while
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago"Category error" is the term for this, I believe.
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- m3kw9 7y agoThe algorithm is physical now?
- et2o 7y agoToyota Touts Chemical that’s Faster than Automobile
- tus88 7y agoSpaceX just announced a new rocket engine that is more powerful than Boeing!
- swebs 7y agoWhat's that rule that states that the media never knows what its talking about, but you only notice when they're reporting on a field you're very familiar with?
- vo2maxer 7y agoFor a gentler title and more information: Combinatorial optimization by simulating adiabatic bifurcations in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaav2372.full https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaav2372.full
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoAnother Goto. Would be funny if he'd be related to: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushige_Goto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushige_Goto But probably not. Is a common surename there.