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SC24 Talks at the UMD Booth

SC24 Talks at the UMD Booth

Quantum Supremacy? What can be accomplished with NISQ computers?

In 2019, Google claimed to have achieved Quantum Supremacy after performing a quantum calculation that would take 100,000 years on a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer. However, in 2024 the same calculation was performed on a supercomputer in a shorter time and using less energy. Quantum computing offers a different, potentially superior, computing approach than classical computing but hardware limitations put any claim of quantum advantage in perspective, not at least because progress in classical computing allows for greatly improved emulation of quantum circuits.

Slides will be available for download here after the presentation.

Speaker Bio - Franz Klein

Franz Klein

Franz Klein is HPC Engineer and Director of the National Quantum Laboratory at Maryland (QLab). He joined UMD in 2017 after working over 20 years in Nuclear/Particle Physics.