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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

D-Wave Still in the Race for Quantum

Have been following D-Wave's work since their inception.     We also worked with Los Alamos in the area of dealing with rare maintenance events.   See tag below.

Nuclear weapons lab buys D-Wave's next-gen quantum computer

Los Alamos National Laboratory will install D-Wave's 5,000-qubit Advantage system in 2020.

 It's been a busy time in quantum computing: IBM announced its biggest quantum computer so far, and Google reportedly has cracked a problem with its quantum computer faster than a conventional computer could. Now D-Wave, a rival with a different approach to the technology, has announced that nuclear weapons research site Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is the first customer for its next-generation machine.

Quantum computers are a totally different breed of machine than the classical computers that power everything from your smartphone to Amazon's vast e-commerce operation. Quantum computers rely on the weird physics of the very small to perform calculations classical machines  can't solve -- at least in principle. So far, the technology is very, very experimental..... " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems:  from the Wikipedia:


" .... On May 11, 2011, D-Wave Systems announced D-Wave One, described as "the world's first commercially available quantum computer", operating on a 128-qubit chipset[10] using quantum annealing (a general method for finding the global minimum of a function by a process using quantum fluctuations)[11][12][13][14] to solve optimization problems.   ... " 

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