A benchmark is a standard or point of reference against which things can be compared or assessed, often used to measure performance or quality. In computing, benchmarking involves running a series of tests on hardware or software to evaluate its performance relative to other systems.
Source: Conversation with Copilot, 9/23/2024
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Today’s Brief Commentary: I was in the UK last week, and although I sent out a newsletter before I left, there’s quite a bit to catch up on today. You might need a coffee and a refill to read it…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m heading back to the UK this weekend for meetings in Cambridge and London. In particular, I’m attending the first meeting of the Quantum Datacenter Alliance on Thursday, June 26, at the Battersea Power Station, London. The…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’ve been traveling in the UK this week to attend and speak at the Economist Impact 4th annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2025 conference in London. It was a great event as usual, with roughly 25% of the…
What Happened? On Monday, May 12, 2025, Rigetti Computing announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. It wasn’t pretty, but maybe it doesn’t need to be…
What Happened? On Wednesday, May 7, 2025, IonQ announced its financial results for the Q1 2025 quarter ending March 31, 2025. See its press release for the full details. This was the first quarter under new CEO Niccolo De Masi,…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s photo above is from the Quantum.Tech USA 2024 event in Washington, DC, in April. Thanks to the organizers for the image. Honestly, I thought I was smiling the whole time. It’s been a busy quantum spring…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This is a special issue of the newsletter in that instead of news articles and research papers, I’ve included several links that give the current state of quantum computing for finance. If you do a web search…
Today’s Brief Commentary: At the beginning of my talk at Quantum.Tech DC last week, I showed the above image as the bridge that quantum computing providers are trying to build and cross to give us Practical Quantum Advantage. I define…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today’s first link in the post-quantum cryptography section is about OpenSSH adopting one of the NIST PQC standards. OpenSSH is a widely adopted open-source implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, offering secure solutions for remote access,…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Prompted by a LinkedIn post by David Ryan and then my comment (and his response), today, I address the topic of a media or press kit for your website. Such a kit is a one-stop page that…
Today’s Brief Commentary: With the APS Global Physics Summit, NVIDIA GTC, and the Synopsys Executive Forum all in California last week, my attention turns to New York this week. I will do a short follow-up newsletter with my upcoming events…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m exhausted from hearing about and discussing the drop in stock prices of quantum companies (and even some that only have “quantum”…
Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links include three to press releases for planned Q3 2024 earnings reports for D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. All have announced…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m catching up after attending and speaking at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City this week. As a…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m speaking on Tuesday, October 29, at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City. The title is “Quantum AI:…
Today’s Brief Commentary Do tech vendors think the general public wants to know the in-the-weeds details of their products? This seems to be the case with both AI and quantum providers. While I understand the details are important to implementors,…