imagine a gaming system that uses quantum technology. ironically sounds extremely expensive to build
[QUOTE=Itauske Roken;51920399]imagine a gaming system that uses quantum technology. ironically sounds extremely expensive to build[/QUOTE]
You'd also need to imagine games and a gaming operating system that could make use of it. Nothing current would.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;51920436]You'd also need to imagine games and a gaming operating system that could make use of it. Nothing current would.[/QUOTE]
I wonder how something like an MMO could implement it
or actually, any game at all, even
[QUOTE=mastersrp;51920436]You'd also need to imagine games and a gaming operating system that could make use of it. Nothing current would.[/QUOTE]
Not even that, quantum computers will never replace classical computers because of the way they work.
Quantum computers only excels in problems that are massively parallelizable involving large datasets or large number of computations. This makes tasks such as factoring large primes and database sorting from having an exponential runtime on a classical machine down to polynomial time on a quantum machine.
Because of so, quantum computers will coexist with classical computers even by the time they're mass produced. Everyday tasks such as web browsing and video games cannot take advantage of them.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51920728]Not even that, quantum computers will never replace classical computers because of the way they work.
Quantum computers only excels in problems that are massively parallelizable involving large datasets or large number of computations. This makes tasks such as factoring large primes and database sorting from having an exponential runtime on a classical machine down to polynomial time on a quantum machine.
Because of so, quantum computers will coexist with classical computers even by the time they're mass produced. Everyday tasks such as web browsing and video games cannot take advantage of them.[/QUOTE]
Yes and no. If you think of things like web browsing in a classical sense, it might seem very straight forward, but it is not. Things like rendering a page can be parallelized a lot, but where it's really exciting is in video game rendering, and especially video rendering of movies. These are every day tasks that such a system might be better at, although I'm not too familiar with the intricacies of how quantum computers theoretically work.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;51921003]Things like rendering a page can be parallelized a lot[/QUOTE]
Rendering a page can be parallelized, yes. However the amount of computation and parallelism is nowhere enough to justify the significant overhead of using quantum algorithms for the task.
[QUOTE=mastersrp;51921003]but where it's really exciting is in video game rendering, and especially video rendering of movies.[/QUOTE]
Quantum computer most likely cannot be used for real time applications like video games and rendering videos. A quantum algorithm does not yield deterministic results, but only probabilistic results when you measure the qubits. You must re-run the algorithm several times to probabilistically determine an answer.
As mentioned previously, quantum computers are really only beneficial to scientific computing and commercial purposes. While how quantum computers can actually be built is still a great mystery, techniques for developing quantum algorithms is pretty well known already. A lot of quantum algorithms are consisted of a mixture of classical parts and quantum parts, because it's simply faster and easier to perform a lot of tasks on classical computers instead.
[QUOTE=Itauske Roken;51920399]imagine a gaming system that uses quantum technology. ironically sounds extremely expensive to build[/QUOTE]
I am pretty sure these are supposed to be used (can only be used) similar to the way that traditional supercomputers are used, such as extremely large calculations for things like scientific research, nothing even comparable to consumer-grade uses. It even says in the article that it is specifically used for things like research. There are already traditional computers, like those with 2 CPUs and multiple powerful video cards, that are far more powerful than what anybody on the consumer level would need anyways.
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