Anyone Wondering How Quantum Computers and Communications Will Integrate With Existing Supercomputers? Apparently Not. Whoops.

By Richard Murray We are close to a commercially useful quantum computer, which raises a significant question: How will it integrate with conventional data storage? As systems, the two represent fundamentally different technologies that must be made to work together. But little work has been done to ensure such harmonisation happens. In fact, it is striking how often quantum computers and quantum communications are considered as if they will exist in hermetic isolation, which is an unlikely outcome given the general direction towards co-ordinated, integrated systems. It could prove a […]