“While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn’t exist and the possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to ever be processed by classical computers. In March 2017, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the industry’s first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems. “IBM Q”quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. IBM Q systems will be designed to tackle problems that are currently seen as too complex and exponential in nature for classical computing systems to handle. One of the first and most promising applications for quantum computing will be in the area of chemistry. Even for simple molecules like caffeine, the number of quantum states in the molecule can be astoundingly large –so large that all the conventional computing memory and processing power scientists could ever build could not handle the problem.”
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