Computing the Impossible #TechVision where the entire machine has been custom It’s also important to recognize that there into “deep tech” they run the risk of having tailored and optimized for video processing. are still many models for quantum computers. that gap grow even wider. As more machines use customized chips and Trapped ion, superconducting, quantum dot, architecture and are built to purpose, more and optical lattice are just a few practical That said, there are some efforts underway specific benchmarking may be required approaches to building new quantum computers, to improve this anticipated skills gap. QuantFi, to understand true top end performance each with very different approaches to a French startup creating quantum computer and capabilities. qubit implementation. algorithms, and QURECA, a quantum training provider, jointly launched “Quantum Computing Similarly, much of the reporting around quantum Benchmarks aren’t the only signal of growth for Finance” – an online course for professionals computers is focused on a different benchmark: for this trend. The impact of these machines to learn about the application of quantum 190 qubits (or quantum bits) per chip. This is roughly will directly follow the emergence of skilled computing to the financial sector. And the analogous to tracking the number of transistors workers who can leverage them. A survey of EuroHPC project is a public–private sector on a classical silicon chip in terms of giving top-level executives revealed the belief that top partnership committed to growing the use 191 an estimate of performance. Most providers factors delaying potential quantum deployments of HPC across the EU. As part of the project, today boast chips of 20–50 qubits, while today are a trained worker shortage as well the Irish Centre for High-End Computing most researchers see 1,000 qubits as a major as software and hardware availability. In that launched a Competence Centre with an threshold for performance. But again, it doesn’t same survey, half of respondents believed accelerator designed to work with private 192 tell the whole story. For one, error correction is that lack of quantum experts is what was companies to train HPC subject matter experts. still a major area of research. Breakthroughs in stopping quantum from being even more 188 quantum error correction will be just as, if not popular. Similarly, in 2021, the United Kingdom Those with the right skills and abilities will more, significant to the field as the doubling of conducted an in-depth study of the country’s not only understand benchmarks and how the qubits – because as the number of qubits grows, large-scale computing competency and found market is moving, but they will foreshadow and error correction becomes more important by “an acute shortage of large-scale computing enable the scale of impact these machines 189 orders of magnitude. professionals.” Enterprises are already facing will have. a technology skills shortage, and as they push Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 84