[LINK] First commercial quantum computer

[Kim Holburn]

Yeah, I don't know.

There was an interesting discussion in quora.  Anyone here use quora?

http://www.quora.com/Is-the-D-Wave-One-a-true-quantum-computer

One guy reckons it doesn't have enough knobs for a universal adiabatic quantum computer.  Bit of a worry that ;-)  The consensus (out of three or so) seems to be that if two serious companies bought it it probably does something.  

Hopefully it can't quite factorise large primes yet.  Because if it could and google bought one ..... doesn't bear thinking about really!


On 2011/Jun/01, at 3:12 PM, David Lochrin wrote:

> On Saturday 28 May 2011 16:14, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation
>> 
>> From:
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/27/1931247/Lockheed-Martin-Purchases-First-Commercial-Quantum-Computer
>> 
> 
> My BS Detector has gone off - this wouldn't all be an elaborate practical joke would it?
> 
> David
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