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QC Glossary

Programming Model

A model for writing programs to facilitate a specific execution model. This might be different from the intended execution model of the underlying language and is usually implemented in or enforced by a framework.

Classical

Quantum

Examples

  • MapReduce1, for parallel computing

Sources

  1. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. System and method for efficient large-scale data processing, January 19 2010. US Patent 7,650,331.