Qilimanjaro — the first open source quantum computer and programming language
Quantum computing is predicted to transform everything. Complex calculations, cryptography, simulations, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, applied science and financial technology among countless and countless more things we can yet hardly even imagine are fundamentally transformed through the peculiar capabilities and enormous processing power quantum computers have, compared with traditional computing systems we know and use today. Especially in simulation of large, complex systems, quantum computing makes it possible to test theories and to validate datasets.
In non-technical terms, quantum computing makes things seen in popular science fiction possible, because we finally have the tools to achieve these dreams. The quantum computer indeed, is comparable to the Renaissance printing press. The technology opens up a whole new world of opportunities.
Quantum computers today are still simple, only a few qubits in capacity. Yet, they perform faster than regular computers in calculations, where the design quantum computers are built upon offer a technical advantage. The benefit is several billions of times in efficiency. Quantum computers will become a whole lot more important in coming years, as applications are developed on them. Those with access to this new, powerful technology will gain ginormous productivity in whatever they’re doing.
Quantum computing is still in the hands of big corporations, and quite expectedly so. Indeed, the technology is barely out of the lab, and the quantum computers existing today are in a similar position to mainframes of the pre-PC era. There are only a few units in production in late 2018, and the units are owned by the corporations that developed the units, themselves. This results unse of the technology being under discretion of whoever developed and deployed it commercially. Under current circumstances, this means that only government and other large corporations get any meaningful access to quantum computing platforms. For university students the technology represents itself as theory, and for the retail market, it remains inaccessible, for now.
Commercial and retail users of quantum computing would benefit greatly from the opportunities the technology opens in their respective fields. Being a general technology, quantum computing has the capability to transform all industries with specific applications. Socio-economically, quantum computing is just as relevant as AI, blockchain, or in previous years, computing itself.
Blockchain could help in bringing quantum computing accessible to retail users in ways not seen before in cloud computing. The users could subscribe to the quantum mainframe, and share their applications for a fee, even take part in testing and development of the new platform.
Qilimanjaro is a shared quantum computing platform on blockchain. The grand idea behind the service is to offer access to quantum computing services for everyone, whether they are large or small organizations or individuals. Because quantum computing is an important, general technology, virtually any type of business would greatly benefit from being able to access it at an affordable rate.
The platform consists of a quantum computer, available for public use via a cloud service. The computer offers at the beginning basic quantum computing algorithms, progressively expanding according to the needs of the users. The computer will be built in stages, eventually reaching hundreds of qubits. Qilimanjaro is developing it’s own quantum computing technology, using the latest knowledge in the field. This makes the platform competitive in the market in the long term.
Qilimanjaro is developing a programming language suited for quantum computing called Qibo, which is currently in beta. Users may sign up to try it out through the website. The language is versatile enough to be able to process any quantum logic known today. The programming language is a groundbreaking feature, being the first, being open source, and thus making a standard in programming quantum logic, and producing applications for quantum computers in years to come. Actually, being the first and only open source quantum computing platform, Qilimanjaro and Qibo are probably going to emerge as the quantum computing platform for retail and commercial use.
Naturally, Qilimanjaro offers consultation as well, for users who are looking for suitable uses for quantum computing for their organizations.
The roadmap is laid out as a fundamental technology development project, with clear goals in mind until mid-2020’s, when the project should achieve it’s first 100-qubit processing unit. The project welcomes early adopters to implement the platform as early as 2019, which truly places Qilimanjaro in the forefront of the technology.
The token QBIT is a utility token, which allows the users to use services offered by the platform. There are a total of 300 million tokens, from where 135 million are allocated for initial circulation. The ICO is divided in a private sale and a public pre-sale and a public crowdsale, where 76'687'500 tokens are allocated in the private pre-sale, 30'937'500 in the public pre-sale and 28'125'000 in the public crowdsale respectively. The budget allocates 65% of the raised funds in building the quantum computer itself, 22.5% in deployment of the quantum software service and Qibo -language, 10% in marketing and 2.5% in legal expenses.
My thoughts:
Quantum computing is probably the most important step in development of computing technologies since the emergence of the first transistor. The logic fundamentally changes the way we think of computers, computing and information processing, and adds a new dimension in logical applications. At the dawn of this technology we can barely fathom it’s profound impact on the society and human civilization as a whole.
Qilimanjaro is an extremely significant project.
The potential is titanic.
Website: https://qilimanjaro.io/
Whitepaper: https://qilimanjaro.io/static/whitepaper.pdf
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