{"id":28895,"date":"2016-08-13T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/is-quantum-the-future-of-high-performance-analytics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:59:28","slug":"is-quantum-the-future-of-high-performance-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/is-quantum-the-future-of-high-performance-analytics","title":{"rendered":"Is Quantum the Future of High-Performance Analytics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-quantum-the-future-of-high-performance-analytics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think quantum computing sounds like something out of science fiction, you\u2019re not alone. It\u2019s still more theory than practice, but it might be able to answer questions that are unsolvable by current computers. Earlier this year, IBM made a small quantum computer available via the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantum Mechanics and the Weirdness of Particles <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To understand quantum computers, you must first know a little bit about quantum mechanics. In the briefest possible description, quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that models how particles behave at the smallest scales.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/upside.tdwi.org\/articles\/2016\/08\/12\/is-quantum-the-future-of-high-performance-analytics.aspx\">https:\/\/upside.tdwi.org\/articles\/2016\/08\/12\/is-quantum-the-f...ytics.aspx<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think quantum computing sounds like something out of science fiction, you\u2019re not alone. It\u2019s still more theory than practice, but it might be able to answer questions that are unsolvable by current computers. Earlier this year, IBM made a small quantum computer available via the cloud. Quantum Mechanics and the Weirdness of Particles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60819,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions\/60819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}