The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee is the stuff of computation legend.
Before we get into the bling part, it is worth defining a few terms.
A quantum accelerator is a specialised hardware unit that speeds up specific quantum algorithms, or tasks.
Essentially, they augment classical computing systems.
It also offers a range of software and software tools to go along with the hardware units.
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Parallel quantum computing entails several quantum systems working alongside each other to solve a specific problem.
Milestone to achieving massively parallelised quantum accelerators
ORNL belongs to the US Department of Energy.
It is home to Frontier the worlds fastest supercomputer with a computational capacity of 2 exaflop.
(One exaflop is the ability to perform one billion billion calculations per second.)
These can act as stable qubits at room temperature.
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