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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Problem with the quantum computer is not only in building the new kind of microchip. Another problem is to create the program or operating system, what can use all power of the supercomputer. And one solution would be used multi-layer kernel, where the top layer is normal Windows or Linux layer, and that layer communicates with processor thru the lower layer, what is specially designed for those ultimate processors.
The speed of microprocessors is not the only thing, what makes the ultimate computing and ability to make the sharp and powerful simulation. Another important thing is that the programs can communicate and control that electric equipment. In the production of microchips might use nanotechnology, what allows to make the three-atom size of transistors. In those transistors, the foot, collector, and emitter are made of the single atom.
And the super fast computers can also cool to the temperature where it turns to superconducting. It would give it ultimate clock frequency because that superconductor would eliminate the heating of the processor. But then the temperature must be near absolute zero-point or zero Kelvin temperature. Those ultra small and fast components need also new kind of kernels.
This means that if the computer programs and kernel, what makes the layer, where computer microchips are communicating with computer software have no ability to drive computer with full speed, or is not otherwise capable to exploit the full power of those computers, the superfast computers are useless. This is one of the greatest problems with the creating the quantum computer.
There are no programs, what can exploit the capacity of this new kind of supercomputer. One version to solve that problem is to make multilayer kernel, where the top layer is normal Windows or Linux kernel, what would control the lower layer of the kernel. This lower layer of the kernel would be made for communicating with that quantum processor. That would be one solution for that ultra-fast computer.
The ultra-fast computers are needed also in everyday computing because mobile solutions use so-called pre-processed computing, where all calculations happen in the server. This allows making the mobile systems, where are the long-term batteries. The mobile computers like tablets are usually quite weak processors. The calculations must do in somewhere, and those process would happen in the memory of central computers. But the servers must have powerful processors. And this would raise the need to develop the new kind of extreme fast computers, what can be used also for code-breaking.
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