Orquestra, a new Quantum development platform
Well.....to be able to use it, you need to be able to code for it...
Despite skeptics having doubts about the ‘realness’ of the imminent field of quantum computing, there are many strides forward made even now. IBM recently released an ambitious roadmap that is hardware-based, and Zapata, a Boston-based quantum computing startup, announced its commercial release of Orquestra.
It is an advanced software platform used to create repeatable quantum and quantum-based workflows and algorithms and can be used across industries and cases. The process involves a quantum engine that systematically groups together information and resources even when they are spread across both quantum and classical devices.
Orquestra is designed for quantum use cases such as writing, manipulating, and optimising quantum circuits as well as running these across various devices. These devices include quantum computers, simulators, and HPC resources. Orquestra provides the following functions:
Optimised open-source and exclusive algorithms can be supplied by extensive quantum algorithm repositories. Code can be combined by users from various different quantum libraries for workflow management systems. Many different quantum and classical backends can be run and benchmarked.
I'm still on the fence with this one. Whilst I think it's great having quantum computers, they sound really CyberPunk and cool and futuristic, I've not seen a real life useful use for them yet (ignoring security encryption for a moment) and therefore, I'm also struggling with the coding/programming of one to do something useful. I can imagine how I would use one, for instance to understand someone speaking in real time, determining the words, context and meaning of what they are saying, as you could do all that work in parallel and have multiple threads of potential optional paths to follow, but, I don't know. Maybe it won't be used for Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) stuff at all, but for managing the autonomous part of self-driving cars? or some geeky backend auto-filing system of documents or something.
We were all thinking, "Space travel", but hmmmm..... we'll see :-)
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