The Computer to Put Yours to Shame!

[Adak]

Today, D-Wave from Vancouver will be doing a demo of the first Quantum computer at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA.

This is a 16 "qubit" (quantum equivalent to a bit - sort of).

Quantum computers work by taking advantage of Quantum Mechanics principle of uncertainty in the placement of electrons around the atom - in D-Wave's demo, phosphorous atoms.

A 64 bit quantum computer would have a theoretical computational ability 16 BILLION BILLION times faster than the fastest 64 bit compuer today. :)

It is believed that ALL types of cryptography now in use, would be instantly made obsolete by a Quantum computer.

I bet it couldn't fold more than 100,000 WU's in a day, though. :)

I have to tell myself to just relax and keep breathing!

Adak

[marty9876]

I just read a book about that type of thing.... he died and she lived happily ever after.

I'll believe it once it's borged! :D

[dfonda]

I have two on order:santa: Just have to wait for the new SMP client.

[harlam357]

I heard lee already has one... :D

[WarriorII]

I was gonna say... I've got a borg ready thumb drive. :)

remember though, Username = WarriorIII & T32 of course.

:D

:attn:

[dfonda]

I heard lee already has one... :D
Lee's won't work he's trying to power it with electricity.:)

[Shelnutt2]

remember though, Username = WarriorIII & T32 of course.


ROFL!!!

You made a small typo. It should be Shelnutt2.. (no seriously you did spell your name wrong)



Got any thinks to maybe a read of this demonstration?

[WarriorII]

:p

[harlam357]

No, seriously, he didn't shel... WII folds under WarriorIII. Don't ask me why... but it's the truth. I swear! :beer:

[davekusa]

So whats the frame times on that?
Did stanford come out with a quantum Client?

[pscout]

sorry ... no frame times ... its quantum :D

[IAmMoen]

for those of you who dont understand quantum computing it is the system basically has 0's and 1's and everything that lies on the continuum between. So you can have 0.86544546568976875587654376797698654326567 instead of just a zero or a one. And yes if and when these computers actually start working (i believe that ibm is the closest to a working one) all encryption will be rendered utterly useless. Honestly that freaks me out a bit but hopefully a person with malicious intent won't get their grubby little paws on one for a good long time.

By the way the C2D systems will still beat out a 16qubit system in terms of acceleration. Think of it like this, in a c2d system you will have two runners (2 cores) running all the 0's and 1's back and forth from memory to cpu. In a qubit system you have billions of people jogging back and forth. For gaming the c2d will still win out. Sheer number crunching? Well thats like having the billions of people go up against the 2 in a royal rumble :)

[Shelnutt2]

No, seriously, he didn't shel... WII folds under WarriorIII. Don't ask me why... but it's the truth. I swear! :beer:

OMG, your right! All this time and I never noticed that! Its like all my folding as been a lie!:cry:

[Sleepy_Steve]

My Conroe is faster... for everything :D

[AlabamaCajun]

Hey, we could all save on electricity, just borg ONE for Team 32. Did I hear someone say Lee's buying?

"Barcelona, the next evolution in desktop supercomputing. Does more work in a wait-state then a full-bored oced Conro".

[dz_jad]

for those of you who dont understand quantum computing it is the system basically has 0's and 1's and everything that lies on the continuum between. So you can have 0.86544546568976875587654376797698654326567 instead of just a zero or a one. And yes if and when these computers actually start working (i believe that ibm is the closest to a working one) all encryption will be rendered utterly useless. Honestly that freaks me out a bit but hopefully a person with malicious intent won't get their grubby little paws on one for a good long time.

By the way the C2D systems will still beat out a 16qubit system in terms of acceleration. Think of it like this, in a c2d system you will have two runners (2 cores) running all the 0's and 1's back and forth from memory to cpu. In a qubit system you have billions of people jogging back and forth. For gaming the c2d will still win out. Sheer number crunching? Well thats like having the billions of people go up against the 2 in a royal rumble :)

hey, thanks for the info, that really helps :)

[jws2346]

for those of you who dont understand quantum computing it is the system basically has 0's and 1's and everything that lies on the continuum between. So you can have 0.86544546568976875587654376797698654326567 instead of just a zero or a one. And yes if and when these computers actually start working (i believe that ibm is the closest to a working one) all encryption will be rendered utterly useless. Honestly that freaks me out a bit but hopefully a person with malicious intent won't get their grubby little paws on one for a good long time.

By the way the C2D systems will still beat out a 16qubit system in terms of acceleration. Think of it like this, in a c2d system you will have two runners (2 cores) running all the 0's and 1's back and forth from memory to cpu. In a qubit system you have billions of people jogging back and forth. For gaming the c2d will still win out. Sheer number crunching? Well thats like having the billions of people go up against the 2 in a royal rumble :)

I second the motion in saying thanks IAmMoen, up until I read your post I was thinking it was something out of "Startrek" :rolleyes:

[Rev]

It's actually more powerful than that IAmMoen. In computing a bit can be ONLY a 1 or a 0. A Quantum "qubit" (quantum bit) is both a 0 AND a 1 at the same time. It works on the physics principle of Quantum Entanglement. This was an idea put forth early in the 20th century by Einstein Podolsky and Rosen meant to show that Quantum Mechanics is inconsistent. In the 60s a physicist named Bell was able to show how the QM and Classical pictures would differ exactly and it was tested in the 70s/80s. Turns out QM wins and the result is too wild for imagination.

Presently there are only two areas where a speedup will occur; Searches and Factorization. Executing Grover's algorithm with a quantum computer can perform a search and return a result in Sqrt(n) tries (classically it would take n/2 tries). Executing Shor's algorithm a quantum computer can factor huge numbers with exponential speedup.

Quantum Information Processing is a HUGE field in physics right now and there have been all sorts of strange things happening recently. As an example of how crazy QIP is, last February at U Illinois (I believe) a group was able to use the Quantum Zeno Effect with a Quantum computer to factor a number (15 I believe) without ever turning the computer on! That particular branch is called Conterfactual Computation.

[silent bob]

they have been talking about this "Super Computer" for years now , like previously stated , I will believe it when I see it at newegg . I can show you an Eweek from 4 years ago when they were talking about it , but I think Intel was backing it so we wont see that til 4thQ year 2999 . sorry couldnt resist the intel slam.