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Berkeley’s Lamborghini-Lovin’ Dragon
Speed. Reliability. Style.
A collaboration of researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced the development of QubiCML, which, for the first time, uses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that leverage machine learning (ML) to execute mid-circuit measurements on superconducting qubits. The announcement left out a very interesting detail, however, which is that the FPGAs are named after Lamborghinis. You already know that Lamborghinis are fast, and that tells you up front much of what you need to know about this technology.
Floor it!
The first time I saw a Lamborghini, it was driving the speed limit on Interstate Route 80 in New Jersey. Literally every other driver, including the driver of the car I was in, saw this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pass a Lamborghini on an open road. If anyone was going to get a speeding ticket that day, everyone knew who it would be. Ironically, therefore, you don’t always want to push a Lamborghini to its…
