Disregarding custom OS that will probably be made first.
This is not how this works. One day in the future, when quantum computers have matured enough to do something actually useful instead of just quantum benchmarks, they still will not be general purpose systems.
The situation will be more like video cards at the moment: it would be a subsystem doing something very specialized and limited, being controlled by a driver handing over certain jobs from the OS of the real processor.
Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit the basic features of an operating system enough that it would make sense to modify an OS to require the use of one.
(Although I could totally see Microsoft doing something like only licensing their circuit’s drivers to run on Windows.)
they are effectively GPUs
QPUs
Seriously. There are a lot of parallels between GPUs (or NPUs for ML inference) and quantum processors in terms of being architected towards a more specialized form of computation and I could totally see QPUs being a thing in the future, probably mostly for number cruncing (see Grover/Shor’s algorithms). Though if Grover search suddenly becomes the way of quickly searching for files or something, who knows, maybe this might be more useful for general computing than we think.
In the 80s no one thought computers would be something normal people would use at home, they were seen as a tool for mathematicians and nerds. Now look at the world today. Who knows what the future will hold.
Exactly. If they do ever become a thing, if thats even possible, it would be a special card like a graphics card.
TempleOS
The real answer.
if we could build one for real, maybe King Terry will still be alive today
I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.
I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.
They literally exist right now.
The quantum computers that exist can’t solve anything that can’t be done better and faster by a normal computer.
I was actually surprised how “cheap” they are to rent.
how can a thing that has existed for years be impossible?
What exists is a weird engineering experiment that runs some synthetic tests that are designed to return a number that you plot on a graph which you show your investors. And it costs all the money in the world and then some.
Not only there is no practical use for all that, there are debates about what the practical uses might even be in theory for something that nobody really sure is happening.regular computers were useless except for basic addition and multiplication for a long time, and now we have the internet. quantum computers, when they are ready, will be capable of doing calculations much faster than it’s even physically possible for normal computers to. just because it isn’t ready yet doesn’t mean it will never be useful. your take is shortsighted and ignorant of how developing new stuff works.
Sometimes ignorance makes its origins obvious, but literally every single part of your viewpoint can be disproven by just reading any science communication website, much less the actual papers behind the quantum processors currently in commercial operation so how you came to believe what you believe is just a complete mystery.
There are no useful quantum computers. If you disagree, provide a citation.
To add to what most people are saying here, i also believe that quantum computing will evolve rapidly one day, with new algorithms being developed there is no telling if quantum computing will truly stay niche or specialized and can’t be expanded into general purpose computing. as tech is always evolving, i would argue that claiming that quantum processors stay akin to gpu’s. gpu’s are pretty much a sprecialization of the same stuff that builds a cpu, to my understanding. therefore, there is nothing truly proving that qpu’s can’t just evolve backwards into a parallel to cpu’s. besides, i can see it being favorable to keep only a qpu for most desktop platforms and only optionally a cpu that would be plugged into the equivalent of a pcie slot. that’s far fetched, but i also don’t think it’s too unreasonable.
neither, you need to have a totally new architecture
Finally we can tell the console people we will have PC 2!
I suspect the Linux kernel would support quantum first. Somehow I don’t see a multi billion dollar multinational moving fast enough to beat some caffeine addicted teen looking for street cred.
I mean it seems more like a gpu in the sense it would be interacted with from a standard computer.
*nix for sure. No way MS will develop a quantum OS before a *nix variant is out
Your quantum computer will have a device driver, that allows you to use it through your cluster. Just like your SAN.
neither but it will be something server related
Honestly neither since we won’t have that in a PC sized containment for decades or ever.
Quantum computing is a pipe dream, it’s never going to happen.
it’s happening but it’s probably not the thing that you think it is
It’s already happening so… L take?
Just like building flying machines, its impossible.
Just like humans landing on the moon, its impossible.
