Diamandis already made this point, but it's a pretty remarkable juxtaposition so I figured I'd add my own experience:
NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View is home to both Pleiades, 15th fastest (tested*) supercomputer in the world, and Google/NASA's D-Wave 2. Touring the facility I was awed by the sheer magnitude of Pleiades. Rows and rows - 20 some in my estimation - of back to back racks lighting up and humming along as I walked through like it was an enchanted garden of hardware. I hadn't expected access to the D-Wave but jumped at the offer. I'll omit the physical security differences for the two systems... but what also struck me again was size. The room housing the D-Wave was a couple orders of magnitude smaller than the one with the behemoth Pleiades; like a professor's office versus a massive gymnasium.
Separately, with regard to comments about the timeline of 'quantum supremacy' --- I wouldn't be so sure that it's far in the future, or in the future at all for that matter. I think it's naive to assume that technological advancements with implications of such a grand scale wouldn't warrant TS classification (or equivalents). Just my two centibits though.
NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View is home to both Pleiades, 15th fastest (tested*) supercomputer in the world, and Google/NASA's D-Wave 2. Touring the facility I was awed by the sheer magnitude of Pleiades. Rows and rows - 20 some in my estimation - of back to back racks lighting up and humming along as I walked through like it was an enchanted garden of hardware. I hadn't expected access to the D-Wave but jumped at the offer. I'll omit the physical security differences for the two systems... but what also struck me again was size. The room housing the D-Wave was a couple orders of magnitude smaller than the one with the behemoth Pleiades; like a professor's office versus a massive gymnasium.
Separately, with regard to comments about the timeline of 'quantum supremacy' --- I wouldn't be so sure that it's far in the future, or in the future at all for that matter. I think it's naive to assume that technological advancements with implications of such a grand scale wouldn't warrant TS classification (or equivalents). Just my two centibits though.