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The Quantum Quest for a Revolutionary Computer (Jeff Bezo's "Infinity Machine")
Time Magazine ^
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| Lev Grossman
Posted on 02/10/2014 7:37:20 PM PST by equalator
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The supercooled niobium chip at the heart of the D-Wave Two has 512 qubits and therefore could in theory perform 2^512 operations simultaneously. Thats more calculations than there are atoms in the universe, by many orders of magnitude
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http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2164806,00.html
I could see the Terminator going back in time to throw this chip into the steel--
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:37:20 PM PST
by
equalator
To: equalator
So I can get bad data even faster. Cool!!
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:40:20 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
To: Hardastarboard
Or you can get your Pr0n faster.
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:41:07 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Somewhere in Russia, a mob programmer is already writing code for that....
/johnny
To: equalator
The D-Wave Two is an unusual computer, and D-Wave is an unusual company. It’s small, and it has very few customers, but they’re blue-chip: they include the defense contractor Lockheed Martin; a computing lab that’s hosted by NASA and largely funded by Google; and a U.S. intelligence agency that D-Wave executives decline to name.
That would be the NSA. Think of brute forcing any password in seconds.
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:52:33 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Got a problem with the government? Have a complaint. Get a free IRS audit!)
To: dfwgator
I want one! I want to get my PrOn faster! ;-)
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:54:45 PM PST
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
To: equalator
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:56:46 PM PST
by
Bronzewound
(Lost Hope & Loose Change)
To: dfwgator; Hardastarboard
Won't run Win 8 tho.
To: JRandomFreeper
He’s also writing a hacking program for it as well.
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:59:52 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
02/10/2014 7:59:57 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: equalator
Imagine pumping all the data allegedly collected by the NSA into this apparatus — it could probably then be taught to compute “intuitively”.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:00:55 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: equalator
“could perform 2^512 operations simultaneously”
And 2^256 of them will be “SVCHOST”
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:01:53 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: equalator
The only quantum computers out there today are all Adiabatic quantum machines. There are some 512 qubit machines made in Canada and some of those are in the US but adiabatic just aint gonna cut it for factoring primes and similar problems..IMO. They would need REAL quantum computers.
The Canadian D-Wave 512 qubit machine cannot factor primes as fast as a home-made array of graphics cards in a geeks basement.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3037834/posts?page=10#10
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:04:05 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(Happiness is a fast ISR)
To: JRandomFreeper
Somewhere in Nigeria, scammers are busy writing new Nigerian 419 emails for that code.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:08:40 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
To: Flick Lives
> That would be the NSA. Think of brute forcing any password in seconds.
They already can depending on the number of digits involved.
To: bigbob
> could perform 2^512 operations simultaneously
And 2^256 of them will be SVCHOST
System overload...
To: equalator
Ok, D-Wave. Prove it. Accept submittal of a ton of 512 bit composite numbers that are the products of two primes from JD Power & Associates. Factor them and publish the results. For a true 512 q-bit computer, this would be a trivial exercise.
Until you do that, D-Wave, I am more than skeptical...
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:19:49 PM PST
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: equalator
The supercooled niobium chip at the heart of the D-Wave Two has 512 qubits and therefore could in theory perform 2^512 operations simultaneously. Yeah I know how that works. No sooner will I save up enough for one of these and get it up and running and they'll come up with the 1024 qubit model that's available in a dozen designer colors for half the price.
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:38:26 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: HangnJudge
Is that Code 42? I have the coffee cup for that...
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posted on
02/10/2014 8:40:33 PM PST
by
Kackikat
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