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A week on a supercomputer is a typical length for a large job. For my PhD work I had supercomputer jobs running for an entire year. Supercomputer time is somethign you can simply buy, and no scientist needs answers that quickly. As long as the problem is classically solvable within a month for less than a few million dollars, you're way ahead of the best QCs.

The QC folks promoting fast solutions for problems that don't need them are selling snake oil.




This is a science project, not a commercial offering. The goal is to prove that it's possible to build a quantum computer that can do something that's intractable on a classical computer.

Unrelatedly, I find it hard to believe that, if a technology were invented that could do quantum simulations in a few minutes that take a week on a classical supercomputer, people wouldn't find economically valuable applications for it.




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