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I imagine that a quantum computing device will eventually be similar to a GPU now - plugs in to a CPU, does what it needs to wherever its strength lay, and over
by sam_goody 6y ago
I imagine that a quantum computing device will eventually be similar to a GPU now - plugs in to a CPU, does what it needs to wherever its strength lay, and over the course of time we will find more and more uses for it (or entirely new fields like bitcoin).
I am fairly certain that there are already OS's designed to run entirely on a GPU rig.
- eqvinox 6y ago> I am fairly certain that there are already OS's designed to run entirely on a GPU rig. A "GPU OS" would still run on a CPU, it's mostly about feeding tasks to the GPU efficiently. The design goals between CPUs and GPUs are strikingly different; CPUs are much more designed for conditionals and branching while GPUs do massively parallelized number crunching. The CPU is the robot arm that picks and shovels things into the GPU pipeline. My understanding is that quantum computers are very similar to GPUs in this regard, and I don't think a classical "OS" makes sense to directly run on either. (P.S.: even more so, I'd expect QCs to model similar to FPGA accelerator cards)
- numlock86 6y agoI second this. Something like a quantum computers will, at least for most computing applications and consumer market, be something that is a peripheral to your "classical" computer just like FPGAs or GPUs today.
- DanGPhoton 6y agoI would like to think that in 10 years I'll be buying a used 64-qubit card on Ebay, like a 2GB video card. What will be the equivalent to gaming which drives this tech to ever-higher performance? DIY protein folding life hacking?
- dmarchand90 6y agoPlus QPU is a nice little name we could use for it
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoImo deep learning would be a better example, Bitcoin is no better because of GPUs (nor is it mined on then anymore)