News on China's scientific and technological development.

Multiple Chinese authorities including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, will start the construction of computing centers in multiple provinces and regions across China while planning a total of ten national data center clusters across the nation, an official from the NDRC said on Thursday.

The move shows the country has completed the overall layout design of the national integrated big data center system and the official start of the country's strategic project of "transporting data from eastern regions of China to western regions for storage and calculation."

The project will help elevate the nation's computing power while promoting green development in western regions with more data centers to be established in the region, which will increase the use of green energy.

Meanwhile, the project will be able to expand effective investment through the construction of data centers across the country to connect investment from both upstream and downstream enterprises, while promoting coordinated regional development through the designed layout of computing facilities from east to west, which will drive the effective transfer of related industries.

As a country's computing power is a core aspect of the digital economy and a significant infrastructure facility for the nation's economic development, accelerating the construction of computing power will effectively stimulate the innovative vitality and creativity of related industries and industrial digitalization, said the official.

Most of China's data centers are currently located in eastern regions, and the large-scale development of data centers in the region is unsustainable due to shortages of land, energy and other resources. Therefore, transporting data from the east to the west will optimize resource allocation and enhance the efficiency of resource use.

The western regions have abundant resources, especially in renewable energy, and have the potential to develop data centers and undertake the demand for computing power in the east, according to the official.

BEIJING -- China has released a new quantum computing programming software named "isQ-Core" and deployed it to the country's superconducting quantum hardware platform.

It represents a significant step forward in the combination of home-grown quantum computing hardware and software, said its primary developer, the Institute of Software under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

According to the institute, the isQ-Core has the advantages of simplicity, ease-of-use, high efficiency, solid scalability, and high reliability.

It will provide support for scientists to conduct quantum computing theory and application research, said the institute in a statement Thursday.

China has achieved rapid quantum computer development, with the launches of "Jiuzhang," "Zuchongzhi," and "Zuchongzhi 2" in recent years. Similar to conventional computers, quantum computers also need software to manage hardware devices, run applications, and provide a user interface.

Researchers announced that they have deployed isQ-Core on a CAS quantum computing cloud platform, currently the largest in China in terms of hardware scale.

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Multiple Chinese authorities including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, will start the construction of computing centers in multiple provinces and regions across China while planning a total of ten national data center clusters across the nation, an official from the NDRC said on Thursday.

The move shows the country has completed the overall layout design of the national integrated big data center system and the official start of the country's strategic project of "transporting data from eastern regions of China to western regions for storage and calculation."

The project will help elevate the nation's computing power while promoting green development in western regions with more data centers to be established in the region, which will increase the use of green energy.

Meanwhile, the project will be able to expand effective investment through the construction of data centers across the country to connect investment from both upstream and downstream enterprises, while promoting coordinated regional development through the designed layout of computing facilities from east to west, which will drive the effective transfer of related industries.

As a country's computing power is a core aspect of the digital economy and a significant infrastructure facility for the nation's economic development, accelerating the construction of computing power will effectively stimulate the innovative vitality and creativity of related industries and industrial digitalization, said the official.

Most of China's data centers are currently located in eastern regions, and the large-scale development of data centers in the region is unsustainable due to shortages of land, energy and other resources. Therefore, transporting data from the east to the west will optimize resource allocation and enhance the efficiency of resource use.

The western regions have abundant resources, especially in renewable energy, and have the potential to develop data centers and undertake the demand for computing power in the east, according to the official.

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What this official article from government news did not specify,

1) who is building the data centers
2) will they be connected with the quantum keys of a quantum network

They probably building a Chinese made data center.




They maybe using quantum communications networks to links these data centers together.

I mean, why wait?

There were stories of how long the distance where the quantum network was able to do, maybe 1000 km? Forget now. There were also reports that the US spy people expected the Chinese network to go dark in a couple of years.

That time is now it appears.

But they never said anything.

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BEIJING -- China has released a new quantum computing programming software named "isQ-Core" and deployed it to the country's superconducting quantum hardware platform.

It represents a significant step forward in the combination of home-grown quantum computing hardware and software, said its primary developer, the Institute of Software under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

According to the institute, the isQ-Core has the advantages of simplicity, ease-of-use, high efficiency, solid scalability, and high reliability.

It will provide support for scientists to conduct quantum computing theory and application research, said the institute in a statement Thursday.

China has achieved rapid quantum computer development, with the launches of "Jiuzhang," "Zuchongzhi," and "Zuchongzhi 2" in recent years. Similar to conventional computers, quantum computers also need software to manage hardware devices, run applications, and provide a user interface.

Researchers announced that they have deployed isQ-Core on a CAS quantum computing cloud platform, currently the largest in China in terms of hardware scale.

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Are they hinting at an operating system for the photonic quantum computer, or an operating system for a super-conducting quantum computer, both of which were demonstrated by the team at USTC.

Something is going on, but they will not discuss the details!

All we can do, is talk about is Gu Ailing.

She is kind of like quantum too, eh, like you know, eh, like, her mind, operates at two places at once.

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Are they hinting at an operating system for the photonic quantum computer, or an operating system for a super-conducting quantum computer, both of which were demonstrated by the team at USTC.

Something is going on, but they will not discuss the details!

All we can do, is talk about is Gu Ailing.

She is kind of like quantum too, eh, like you know, eh, like, her mind, operates at two places at once.

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Bro, this is high-level national security-level stuff, we're on a need-to-know basis. No need to ask too much... just keep your eyes on Gu!

Well only China initially pursued both photonic and superconducting (silicon) quantum computing methods. US only had silicon method but now pursuing photonic too after seeing the Chinese efforts in photonic quantum computing exceed US silicon based ones from Google and IBM. In time newer Google and IBM machines will surpass the latest Chinese photonic machine in qubits and it'll be just like the back and forth lead swapping with supercomputers... well I guess China's already sort of won the supercomputing race seeing as it has two exascale machines compared to the US' zero exascales.

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Bro, this is high-level national security-level stuff, we're on a need-to-know basis. No need to ask too much... just keep your eyes on Gu!

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Also keep your eyes on Su.

horse said:

Are they hinting at an operating system for the photonic quantum computer, or an operating system for a super-conducting quantum computer, both of which were demonstrated by the team at USTC.

Something is going on, but they will not discuss the details!

All we can do, is talk about is Gu Ailing.

She is kind of like quantum too, eh, like you know, eh, like, her mind, operates at two places at once.

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Hmm does it matter what is the physical architecture of the system?

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Hmm does it matter what is the physical architecture of the system?

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It should, even though I really got no idea about what they are doing.

It is the math of it. They said, the Pan team at USTC, that adding two more qubits exponentially increases the computing power.

That is awesome. IIRC they went from 130 qubits to 176 qubits from their first experiment to their second experiment with photons.

Now with the super-conducting experiment, the gear is super-cooler to minus 0° or something like that. It is more difficult to make that thing better, to add qubits.

The word here, is scalable. The photonic quantum computer is scalable. The super-conducting quantum computer is not the same. It is very easy for them to add more light guns, splitters, crystals, and measuring instruments to that table top. Just find a bigger table, and scale it up.

If one quantum computer is scalable, and the other is not really, then that is the question to ask, about what type of software they claim to have.

It is almost like regular computers, the client ie the laptop, and the server. Windows runs on the client. Windows server software runs on the servers, and the cloud is scalable.

Since they did not say, we should assume it is the photonic quantum computer, because that seems like a better design.

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IIRC, there were three things that they said they had to do before a quantum computer is real.

I forget, but I think it is this.

1) demonstrate quantum advantage
2) fix it or stabilize it with the error correction
3) make a rudimentary OS

If they are saying that this is the operating system, then step 2 of the error correction was done.

How did they do the error correction? Who knows, we need a computer science engineer to explain that. My guess is to run the same experiment and see if the results are the same. They can have two systems running the same calculations, to see if they are the same, that is the best error correction! That thing is so fast, they can do that.

Anyways, ranted too much.

Artificial intelligence is partially behind Chinese athletes' excellent performance at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics so far, showcasing the big potential of AI in the sports sector, experts said.

After Xu Mengtao won gold in the women's freestyle skiing aerials at the Games on Monday, an AI scoring system used in her training has been gaining growing attention.

The system is developed by Chinese AI company Xiaoice to help boost the training efficiency for freestyle skiing aerials. The Beijing-based company said it has innovated a snow sports analysis model to provide training scores and analysis for athletes' motion trajectories and angles.

Every time an athlete jumps, the system-Xiaoice-International Athletic Scoring System or X-IASS-will make a professional judgment, which is highly consistent with international refereeing scoring standards, and quantifies the whole process of the three stages of athletes' takeoffs, midair moves and landings to judge their scores.

According to Xiaoice, because some moves in freestyle skiing aerials are risky, daily training maneuvers of athletes are limited.

Li Di, CEO of Xiaoice, said the analysis of multidimensional indicators such as trajectory, body posture and angle provides coaches with guidance on how to achieve the most-efficient scientific training

By improving fans' viewing experience of sporting events, boosting training efficiency for athletes and being virtual umpires and assistant coaches, AI has the potential to inject new vitality into the entire chain of sports training and participation, according to a report from accountancy firm PwC.

PwC said AI has a role to play in talent identification and selection, pregame preparation, in-game performance and postgame analysis as well as boosting management and operations of sports institutions.

"AI technologies are evolving fast and growing increasingly important for a sporting organization's ability to win games, improve coaches and players, manage their operations and grow, serve and retain their fans," PwC said in the report.

Li from Xiaoice agreed, saying that data and quantitative analysis have been used in games for a long time, but AI is considerably elevating every aspect of sports to a new level.

Chen Peijie, president of the Shanghai University of Sport, said earlier that the use of novel technologies in sports will help improve the quality and effectiveness of sports development and promote deepened integration of mass fitness and health.