UC Santa Barbara researchers think they’ve made a huge breakthrough which could revolutionize the speed with which supercomputers process information.
Researchers say working with a one-of-a-kind Google computer, they were able to process information in a little over three minutes which would take the most powerful conventional computers 10,000 years to handle.
The announcement is the result of years of collaboration between Google and UCSB Physicist John Martinis.
The research was focused on something known as quantum computing, a technology that uses tiny particles to encode huge amounts of information.
Details of the findings were published in a paper in the scientific journal “Nature” this week.
