Parent company Amazon no doubt has played with these devices, and also no doubt encouraged AWS to offer them as a service so we all can help Amazon foot the bill for its quantum computing experimentation. Weird, isn’t it?)ĪWS offers a quantum computing service already, called Bracket, for companies to play around with existing machines from IonQ, OQC, Rigetti, Xanadu, QuEra (but oddly enough not D-Wave Systems). (Interesting aside and possibly a physics joke: It doesn’t take quantum electrodynamics simulation to create a quantum computer. (PLSCEM doesn’t run off the tongue, so we get it.) The macroscopic form of “ Maxwell’s Wonderful Equations,” as many of us were exposed to in college and as my own physics professor referred to the laws of electricity and magnetism created by James Clerk Maxwell in 18, are difficult enough the microscopic equations that govern down at the atomic level can be very unwieldy, but are useful when designing a superconducting quantum chip, as AWS is doing precisely because it wants to solve its ultrascale – what is beyond hyperscale? – traveling salesman optimization problems and be more profitable. ![]() Palace is short for Parallel Large Scale Computational Electromagnetics – in that way that acronyms are tortured to make a real word. The problem is so bad that Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, invested in the AWS Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology back in October 2021, and it is still so bad that AWS looked at the various solvers at the heart of many finite element analysis programs and electromagnetic simulators and decided to build one of its own, called Palace, which it has just open sourced on GitHub to try to build a community around it. Figuring out how to get an item from bin 23 in warehouse 42 across the country by myriad possible routes to your doorstep with the least time (or the least energy, if you want to optimize for that) – is enough to make your head explode. In fact, Amazon has nested, or chained, NP hard problems. ![]() Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy.
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