Even though the news of the breakthrough in quantum computer technology had been out for a month, Professor Arik from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory still hadn't given up on his original point of view.
It wasn't that he didn't believe in Lu Zhou's ability.
It was just that he couldn't imagine that without mastering quantum storage technology, it was possible to achieve more than 100 qubits.
Google's approach was to start from the software side, which was the quantum annealing algorithm, which was particularly popular recently.
However, even the best brains at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory could only come up with a solution that could only achieve 80-90 qubits for this experimental quantum computer.
As for 524 …
It was too sci-fi.
He preferred to think of this as a political scam. After all, in his opinion, this wasn't the first time the idiots in Washington, DC had been blackmailed by third-world countries.
Obviously, China was demonstrating quantum hegemony to pressure the International Information System Security Certification Alliance to promote their quantum encryption algorithm and quantum optical cables.
After all, if there was no quantum computer technology, whether it was quantum encryption algorithms or quantum communication technology, in fact, they were completely unnecessary.
With the slow computing power of traditional supercomputers, it would take a century for them to break into the Federal Reserve's vault.
However, with a quantum computer, things were different.
That exponential increase in computing power was something that anyone would be afraid of …
As usual, Professor Arik brought breakfast to the laboratory. He was sitting at his desk, and he was about to open his email to check if there were any new review invitations.
His colleague, Dr. Cecil, walked back from the coffee machine with two cups of coffee. He placed one of the cups on his desk.
"Would you like a cup of coffee?"
"Thank you."
"You're welcome … Speaking of which, today is the completion day of the Star Voyage One. Have you been paying attention to this matter?"
"I've been paying attention, but their performance has disappointed me." Professor Arik carefully tested the temperature of the coffee. He slowly took a sip and said, "The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study doesn't seem to intend to comment on this matter. Other than the review paper, there hasn't been any papers on the quantum computer."
Dr. Cecil nodded thoughtfully.
"I see … It's a bit strange."
Professor Arikar 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 bit and said, "Apparently, they plan to prove the computing power of Star Voyage One by calculating pi."
Arikar took a sip of his coffee and chuckled.
"Oh, how many decimal places are they going to calculate?"
"I think it's ten to the hundredth time."
The moment he heard this, Arik, who had yet to swallow a mouthful of coffee, almost spat it out.
Ten to the hundredth place?!
What a f * cking braggart!
"Let's wait until next year!"
Arik sneered coldly, put the coffee cup aside, held the mouse, closed the email, and opened the browser.
Originally, he did not care much about the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Star Voyage One.
However, he was surprised that they had prepared such an interesting activity for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
He had thought that the Chinese people would continue to wear the "emperor's new clothes", but he did not expect that they would believe the lie in the end.
Calculate the position to the tenth decimal place a hundred times?
Haha!
But that's fine. Since they took the initiative to jump out, don't blame me for being merciless.
D-Wave is about to be completed.
The 3X was about to be completed. If the Chinese people thought that they only needed to calculate a trillion more digits and make up some random data, then they would be able to get away with it …
He would let them know the price of lying.
For D-Wave
It was unrealistic to calculate the 3X to the 3.14X10 ^ 100 decimal place in a short period of time. However, it was possible to break the record to the 3.14X10 ^ 15 decimal place.
However, when Arik opened his browser and looked at the screen, he was stunned.
He hadn't even logged into the official website of Star Sky Technology yet.
A few eye-catching headlines were pasted at the top of the news column in the most eye-catching form:
[Epoch-Making computer! Star Voyage One Passes Guinness Certification, Breaks Pi Record!]
[Los Angeles Daily]
Arik: "???"
…
Obviously, Arik wasn't the only one who was shocked by this piece of news.
Not long after the Guinness World Records recorded this new record, discussions about Star Voyage One were already flooding Facebook, Twitter, and other major communities.
[Isn't Google also researching quantum computers? Why hasn't there been any results?!]
[I'm very disappointed in the White House. Back then, even against the Soviet Union, we still had the upper hand! But now, first controllable fusion, then the lunar space station … It seems like we've been easily surpassed.]
[Approving East Asia Communications' acquisition of SubCom is the dumbest decision ever! This is how we have lost our advantage in appeasement time and time again!]
What was amazing was not only that Star Voyage One managed to calculate pi to 3.14 x 10 ^ 100 decimal places, but it also took it less than a minute to do so!
What did this mean?
It was difficult to describe in detail.
However, if one were to make a direct comparison, one would be able to fully understand how ridiculous this terrifying computing power was.
Prior to this, Google engineers used 25 virtual machines and spent 121 days to complete the record of 3.14X10 ^ 13 decimal place. Not to mention, this was with a specially optimized algorithm for calculating pi!
If it was just pi, it wouldn't be a big deal, but it obviously wasn't that simple.
Soon after, an information engineering professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stood up and expressed his views on this matter on his personal blog.
Or rather, this was a warning to the authorities.
[With current computer technology, it is almost impossible to calculate 3.14X10 ^ 100 decimal place. Even with the latest Dragon carbon-based chip, it would require a computer the size of the White House and a professional team of at least ten people to design a set of customized algorithms for it. Then, it would take a hundred or even two hundred years to calculate.
[If you're using the Summit supercomputer from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I'm sorry to tell you that you'll have to start calculating from when we were still fighting for territory with the Neanderthals to the time I'm publishing this blog. That's about how long it took Star Voyage One a few days ago to do what it did in one minute.]
[I have to remind our Department of Defense experts and information security consultants that although the Cold War era has long passed, a new crisis has emerged.
[Quantum hegemony will become something more terrifying and deterrent than nuclear hegemony. With the powerful information processing ability of quantum computers, those who control them may only need a few small satellites, high-altitude drones, or a bribed janitor to make the civilization that we have spent more than a century building collapse overnight.]
[Nuclear warheads? Intercontinental missiles? Maybe we have the ability to counter them on a physical level, but we still have to get them out of the missile silo.]
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