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This, she argued, is a step in bringing classical and quantum computing together, but also in enabling new error correction protocols. Without this massive amount of classical compute, it won\u2019t be possible \u2014 at least in the foreseeable future \u2014 to effectively control a quantum machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cArguably, the only place you will be able to have scaled-up quantum machines, scaled-up quantum computing will be in a public cloud because it\u2019s that critical to have that level of scale of classical computing integrated with the quantum machine,\u201d Svore explained. She describes the process as a dance, where the classical compute helps choreograph a million qubits to work together simultaneously, \u201call doing their little square dance \u2014 or hexagon dance, whatever it may be.\u201d But to do that, you have to talk to all of these qubits simultaneously, which necessitates these massive compute and bandwidth requirements.<\/p>\n

Svore also argues that it takes a lot of classical compute to build the algorithms that are then sent over to the quantum machine \u2014 which may then also take weeks to run a given computation (and that feedback loop may happen numerous times, too).<\/p>\n