Chapter 1209 Quantum Supremacy

Even though a month has passed since the breakthrough of quantum computer technology, Professor Arik of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory still did not give up his original point of view.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lu Zhou's ability.

It's just that he can't imagine that without mastering quantum storage technology, there is a slight possibility of being able to achieve more than 100 qubits.

The approach Google is taking now is to start with the software, which is the recently popular quantum annealing algorithm.

However, even the best brains of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can come up with a solution that can only make this experimental quantum computer 80-90 qubits.

As for 524...

It's just too sci-fi.

He prefers to regard this matter as a political scam. After all, in his opinion, it is not the first time that the idiots in Washington DC have been blackmailed by a third world country with some weird things.

Obviously, by demonstrating quantum supremacy, Huaguo is putting pressure on the International Information System Security Certification Alliance to promote their quantum encryption algorithms and quantum optical cables.

After all, if there is no quantum computer technology, neither quantum encryption algorithm nor quantum communication technology is actually completely unnecessary.

With the slow computing power of traditional supercomputers, even if it continues to grow, it will take a century to pry open the Fed's treasury.

However, quantum computers are different.

The exponentially growing computing power is scary for everyone...

As usual, he brought breakfast to the laboratory, and Professor Arik, who was sitting at his desk, was about to open his mailbox to check if there were any new review invitations.

At this moment, his colleague Dr. Cecil was walking back from the coffee machine with two cups of coffee and placed one of them on his desk.

"Would you like a cup of coffee?"

"Thanks."

"You're welcome...Speaking of which, today seems to be the day when Xinghai No. 1 will be completed. Are you paying attention to this matter?"

"I've been paying attention, but I'm a little disappointed by their performance," Professor Arika took a sip after carefully testing the temperature, and said, "The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study doesn't seem to be planning to do it here. Except for the review paper, there is not a single paper about the quantum computer after that."

Dr. Cecil nodded thoughtfully.

"That's it...it's really a bit strange."

Professor Arika looked at him and asked, "Do you have any news?"

"I don't know if it counts, but I saw it on their official website," Dr. Cecil thought for a while, and continued, "It is said that they intend to prove the computing power of Xinghai-1 by calculating the ratio of pi."

After taking a sip of coffee comfortably, Arika smiled.

"Oh, how many decimal places are they going to count?"

"It seems to be ten to the hundredth position."

The moment he heard these words, Arik, who hadn't swallowed a sip of coffee, almost spit it out without taking a sip.

Ten to the hundredth degree? !

This is really bragging and not drafting!

"Let's count it down to next year!"

With a cold sarcasm, Arik put the coffee cup aside, closed the mailbox while holding the mouse, and opened the browser.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Xinghai No. 1.

However, they actually prepared such an interesting event for this ribbon-cutting ceremony, which was beyond his expectation.

He originally thought that those people would wear the "emperor's new clothes" forever, but he didn't expect them to believe this lie until the end.

Calculating to the hundredth degree of tenth after the decimal point?

hehe!

But it's okay, since they jumped out on their own initiative, don't blame him for being merciless when he slapped his face.

D-Wave 3X will be completed soon, if those people think that they only need to calculate a trillion digits from the original basis, and then make up some random data to fool them...

He will show them the price of lying.

For D-Wave 3X, it may not be realistic to calculate 3.14X10^100 digits after the decimal point of pi in a short period of time, but it is not a problem to refresh the record to 3.14X10^15 digits.

However, when Arik opened the browser with great ambition and looked at the screen, he was stunned.

He hasn't even logged into Starry Sky Technology's official website yet.

There are only a few eye-catching headlines, and they are posted at the top of the news column in the most eye-catching form:

【Epoch-breaking computer! Xinghai No. 1 passed the Guinness Book of Certification, setting a new record for pi! 】

— Los Angeles Journal.

Aric: "???"

...

Arik was obviously not the only one who was frightened by this news.

Almost immediately after the new record was included in the Guinness Book of World Records, discussions about Xinghai No. 1 have been swiped in various communities on Facebook and Twitter.

[Isn’t Google also working on quantum computers? Why is there no result at all? ! 】

[I am very disappointed with this White House. Even when we faced the Soviet Union, we still had the upper hand! But now, first with controlled fusion, then with the lunar space station... We seem to be easily surpassed. 】

【Approving the acquisition of SubCom by East Asia Communications is the most stupid decision! This is how we lost our advantages in appeasement after appeasement! 】

What is amazing is not only that Xinghai-1 calculated pi to 3.14X10^100 decimal places, but that it took less than a minute to do this!

what does that mean?

It's hard to describe it specifically.

But through an intuitive comparison, one can fully understand how exaggerated this terrifying computing power is.

Prior to this, it took Google engineers 121 days to complete the record of 3.14X10^13 digits with the help of 25 virtual machines, not to mention that this was still using an algorithm specially optimized for calculating pi!

It's fine if it's just pi, but it's obviously more than that simple.

Soon, a professor of information engineering named Jodriffin from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stood up and expressed his views on this matter on his personal blog.

Or rather, a warning to the authorities.

[With current computer technology, it is almost impossible to calculate pi to 3.14X10^100 digits. Even if the latest Longteng carbon-based chip is used, it still needs a chassis as big as the White House, and a professional team of at least ten people to design a specially customized algorithm for it, and then watch it count for a hundred years or even a hundred years. Two hundred years is so long. 】

[If it is the Summit supercomputer of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I am sorry to tell you that it may have to be counted from when we were still competing with Neanderthals until I published this blog At that time, it was almost able to complete what Xinghai-1 completed in one minute a few days ago. 】

[I must remind our experts in the Ministry of Defense, as well as information security consultants, that although the Cold War era has long passed, a new crisis has emerged. 】

[Quantum supremacy will become something more terrifying and deterrent than nuclear supremacy. With the powerful information processing capabilities of quantum computers, those who control them may only need a few small satellites or high-altitude drones. Or a paid janitor who can bring down overnight a civilization we've spent more than a century building. 】

[Nuclear warhead? ICBM? Maybe we have the ability to counterattack from the physical level, but we have to let them fly out of the missile silo smoothly. 】