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Submitted by jax on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 01:33.

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A major technological breakthrough has arrived in computing world--- Quantum Computing is a reality. Recently a Canadian company D-wave demonstrated a viable quantum computer in Silicon Valley. Quantum computing get is name because it uses quantum mechanics rather than the conventional physics associated with digital processing, to drive the computation.

The quantum chip which is at the heart of quantum computing was designed by D-wave and built by NASA. Quantum chip is a processor built from the superconducting materials aluminum and niobium, chilled in a tank of helium.

It achieves supercomputing speeds because its basic data units-called qubits, can hold both values “0” and “1” at the same time and also share those values with other qubits. The demonstration had a chip capable of running at 16 qubits and by end 2008 they are planning to reach 1024 qubits.
Quantum computers are not just faster than conventional computers. They change what computer scientists call the computational scaling of many problems.

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#1Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 18:53.

commercial product?

Besides wondering whether the "Orion" device is a quantum computer or not, a subject which can be debated forever with the D-Wave politicians, I wonder whether D-wave has developed a product that has a strong chance of being commercially successful. That would mean that Orion can make some important calculations with the same precision or success probability but at a substantially faster speed than a state of the art distributed computer. Have the D-wave people proven this after 10 years and 40 million dollars of investment. No, and I doubt they are even close to doing so. So even if Orion is a nice experiment, its future as a commercially successful product is quite doubtful.