New Standards Rolling Out for Clocking Quantum-Computer Performance

For conventional computers, benchmarks can represent a rite of passage of sorts into a new era of computing. As artificial intelligence and machine learning become more and more ubiquitous, for instance, AI and ML benchmarks help everyone understand and measure precisely how well one neural net performs compared to other systems as well as to reference architectures. Not surprising, then, that the emerging field of quantum computer benchmarking will be helping test and improve next-generation quantum processors, researchers say.