A representative of IBM Research, Dr. Walter Rees, in an interview with Izvestia, spoke about the next plans for the use of a new prototype of a commercial quantum computer. This is an IBM Q System One model created for commercial customers from the IBM Q Network.

According to him, such a computer will be used by the oil company ExxonMobil to calculate the mechanisms of catalysis and intermolecular interaction. Such calculations are not able to do ordinary classic computers.

In addition, the novelty is already planning to use the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in order to classify phenomena with particles in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Walter Rees noted that in the near future, quantum computers will not become personal. In his opinion, access to similar super cars will continue to be provided remotely - through the "cloud".

Quantum computers are designed to compute quantum technologies. In ordinary PCs, information is stored in bits - zeros or units, and in quantum ones - in qubits, that is, in both zeros and units. Thanks to this, supercomputers can answer questions that would require thousands of years of computation for ordinary ones. The development may allow detecting oncology at an earlier date, create perfect artificial intelligence, or hack any code.

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