It enables researchers to perform complex computational tasks in the cloud and the public to experience quantum computing at the speed of microseconds.
That ant was the animal acceleration record-holder until 2018, when it was dethroned by the snap-jaw, or dracula ant, which snaps its jaws in 23 microseconds.
Every few microseconds, these computations are recalculated and disseminated to all the microchips in order to perfectly aim the beam at the satellite.
The software involved is able to track the plasma's behaviour so rapidly that it can tweak conditions every 100 microseconds, keeping it away from the reactor walls.