{"id":32679,"date":"2024-04-30T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32679"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:12:25","slug":"nogglestead-super-computing-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/30\/nogglestead-super-computing-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nogglestead: Super Computing Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/quantum-computing\/commodore-64-outperforms-ibms-quantum-systems-1-mhz-computer-said-to-be-faster-more-efficient-and-decently-accurate\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM&#8217;s quantum system \u2014 sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A paper released during the SIGBOVIK 2024 conference details an attempt to simulate the IBM \u2018quantum utility\u2019 experiment on a Commodore 64. The idea might seem preposterous &#8211; pitting a 40-year-old home computer against a device powered by 127-Qubit \u2018Eagle\u2019 quantum processing unit (QPU). However, the anonymous researcher(s) conclude that the \u2018Qommodore 64\u2019 performed faster, and more efficiently, than IBM\u2019s pride-and-joy, while being \u201cdecently accurate on this problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yeah.  The article goes into detail how they did it using under 64K of memory.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s only hobbyists and, presumably, super low-end embedded device programmers, maybe, who continue to squeeze the maximum out of their code.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else in 2024 is just scaffolding stuff up with thousands of dependencies and hundreds of MB of code they never look at or seek to understand.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as a reminder, I have at least <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/admission-of-problem-the-first-step-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">five Commodore 64s<\/a>.  And after that enumeration in 2005, I added Triticale&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/commodore-128-as-nature-intended-it\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Commodore 128<\/a>.  The turn of the 21st century proved to be a high water mark for finding those old computer systems in the wild as people emptied their closets of fifteen and twenty year old technology.  Since we moved to Nogglestead, I&#8217;ve only bought a pair of TI 99s at a church garage sale.  You don&#8217;t even see them, really, at antique malls, although I have seen a TRS-80 at Relics.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I really do have all of them now.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Tech Shepherd<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM&#8217;s quantum system \u2014 sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate: A paper released during the SIGBOVIK 2024 conference details an attempt to simulate the IBM \u2018quantum utility\u2019 experiment on a Commodore 64. The idea might seem preposterous &#8211; pitting a 40-year-old home computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32681,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679\/revisions\/32681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}