{"id":87049,"date":"2026-09-29T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87049"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:20:04","slug":"ibms-quantum-computer-completes-in-19-seconds-what-could-take-a-supercomputer-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ibms-quantum-computer-completes-in-19-seconds-what-could-take-a-supercomputer-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM&#8217;s Quantum Computer Completes in 19 Seconds What Could Take a Supercomputer a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Science Alert:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2026\/09\/IBM-Quantum-Computer-Speeds-Up--642x361.jpg\" alt=\"IBM's Quantum Computer Completes in 19 Seconds What Could Take a Supercomputer a Century\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some computations are so hardcore that it takes a facility of extraordinary power to even think about running them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are the supercomputers \u2013 massive facilities humming with the corpulence of their GPUs and CPUs, crunching applications that would take a desktop computer hundreds to thousands of years.\u00a0 A commercially accessible <a class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-linkid=\"73021\" data-postid=\"221671\">quantum computer<\/a> has just accomplished a feat that suggests this newer technology could one day leave supercomputers in the dust.\u00a0 In just 19 seconds, IBM&#8217;s Nighthawk r2 processor generated a million samples \u2013 a task estimated to take a supercomputer around 110 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Science Alert: Some computations are so hardcore that it takes a facility of extraordinary power to even think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87052,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87049\/revisions\/87052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}