fault-tolerant
adjective
fault-tol·er·ant
ˈfȯlt-ˌtä-lə-rənt 
: relating to or being a computer or program with a self-contained backup system that allows continued operation when major components fail
fault tolerance
noun
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Invest in research focused on error-correcting codes and protocols and fault-tolerant architectures.
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Pramod Kumar, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Her initial estimates of the computation power needed for a quantum-mechanical, human-level AI, using the current capabilities of fault-tolerant quantum gates, were staggering: for thoughts that would take a human one second to think, QUALL-E would require more than 500 years.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Fujitsu researchers, the press release claimed, found that cracking an RSA key would require a fault-tolerant quantum computer with a scale of roughly 10,000 qubits and 2.23 trillion quantum gates, and even then, the computation would require about 104 days.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
The research team noted that their integrated chip was compact and plug-and-play compatible, and that topologically protected entangled photons could serve as qubits in fault-tolerant quantum computers and find use in highly secure quantum communications networks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2022
The fear is that, sometime down the road, a fault-tolerant quantum computer will be used to break existing cryptosystems.
—Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Pramod Kumar, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Her initial estimates of the computation power needed for a quantum-mechanical, human-level AI, using the current capabilities of fault-tolerant quantum gates, were staggering: for thoughts that would take a human one second to think, QUALL-E would require more than 500 years.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Fujitsu researchers, the press release claimed, found that cracking an RSA key would require a fault-tolerant quantum computer with a scale of roughly 10,000 qubits and 2.23 trillion quantum gates, and even then, the computation would require about 104 days.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
The research team noted that their integrated chip was compact and plug-and-play compatible, and that topologically protected entangled photons could serve as qubits in fault-tolerant quantum computers and find use in highly secure quantum communications networks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2022
The fear is that, sometime down the road, a fault-tolerant quantum computer will be used to break existing cryptosystems.
—Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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