D-Wave 2000Q Now 150X Faster For Some Types Of Problems

[Lucian Armasu]

D-Wave announced two new features for its 2000Q quantum annealing computer: reverse annealing, bringing up to 150x speedup for certain problems, and virtual graphs, which improves the performance of certain machine learning algorithms by 5x.

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[AgentLozen]

How do you measure quantum performance? In the case of super computers, it's typically FLOPS. Does that still apply with a quantum processor?

 

[bit_user]

How do you measure quantum performance? In the case of super computers, it's typically FLOPS. Does that still apply with a quantum processor?

Number of qubits seems the first-order metric. Other than that, it's a matter of relative speed at solving certain problems - sort of like benchmarks.

As the field matures, perhaps there'll be something like SpecQA, for Quantum Annealing. Maybe another SpecMark for general quantum computers.

https://www.spec.org/benchmarks.html

I'd also watch for metrics related to setup/readout time, power & temperature requirements (or just operating costs), and stability/error rate.

I like the mention of using redundancy, in the form of multiple qubits. I was wondering if that could be an approach for reducing the error rate.

 

[coolitic]

"the most shortest path"

 

[Rob1C]

most shortest

We do not use more or most together with an -er or -est ending.

Source: Cambridge Dictionary