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D-Wave System Passes Rigorous Tests

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the CQluaasnstiucmal-Superposition dept.

AnonTechie points us towards updates on the evaluation of D-Wave's annealing devices.

From Phys.org's reporting on the latest tests:

With cutting-edge technology, sometimes the first step scientists face is just making sure it actually works as intended. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility specially built to house the first commercially available quantum computing processors; devices so advanced that there are only two in use outside the Canadian lab where they were built. The first one went to USC and Lockheed Martin, and the second to NASA and Google. Since USC's facility opened in October 2011, a key task for researchers has been to determine whether D-Wave processors operate as hoped using the special laws of quantum mechanics to offer potentially higher-speed processing, instead of operating in a classical, traditional way.

(Background at Time, for those unfamiliar.)

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by biff on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:50AM

    by biff (170) on Thursday March 06 2014, @01:50AM (#11779)

    Maybe whether or not the mechanics are definitely quantum is neither here nor there for the folks buying it, but I'm surprised that they haven't been able to figure it out conclusively yet. Maybe open the box and see what's going on in there.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by davester666 on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:04AM

    by davester666 (155) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:04AM (#11785)

    They are still buying into the marketing spiel that "if you open it, that wrecks all that quantum stuff in there, and then it totally stops working."

    Laughing all the way to the bank....

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by wjwlsn on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:32AM

    by wjwlsn (171) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:32AM (#11793) Homepage Journal

    It's probably just a dead cat.

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    I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.

    • (Score: 1) by gargoyle on Thursday March 06 2014, @05:41AM

      by gargoyle (1791) on Thursday March 06 2014, @05:41AM (#11847)

      I'll offer odds of 100 cents to a dollar that the cat is alive.

      • (Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Thursday March 06 2014, @09:26AM

        by wjwlsn (171) on Thursday March 06 2014, @09:26AM (#11905) Homepage Journal

        I'll take that bet, and I'll offer similar odds that the glass is half empty!

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        I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.