Does this announcement mean useful fault-tolerant quantum computing is available?
No. The platform is intended to help researchers co-design and optimize components. The announcement's performance targets are program goals and should not be read as a demonstration that large-scale fault-tolerant workloads have already run.
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IBM, Oak Ridge and AMD Put Quantum Error Correction on an HPC Test TrackThe new IBM, ORNL and AMD co-design platform focuses on decoders and orchestration, the classical systems quantum error correction depends on.
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