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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: 1) by SlimmPickens on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:54AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:54AM (#11803)

    That headline has nothing to do with the summary. We all know what a D-Wave computer is, what were these tests?

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by SlimmPickens on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:24AM

    by SlimmPickens (1056) on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:24AM (#11833)

    what were these tests?

    Well now that I've read TFA I can tell you there's nothing in there about these "rigorous tests" either. In fact the one paragraph relevent to the headine is:

    "The challenge is that the tests we can perform on the USC-based D-Wave processor can't directly 'prove' that the D-Wave processor is quantum - we can only disprove candidate classical models one at a time," said QCC Director Prof. Daniel Lidar. "But so far we find that the D-Wave processor is always consistent with our quantum models. Our tests continually get more rigorous and complex."