Inside the D-Wave Two quantum computer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility.
A dilution refrigerator cools the 512-qubit Vesuvius processor to 20 millikelvin (near absolute zero) — more than 100 times colder than interstellar space.
What will NASA be doing with its new quantum computer?
Io9 has an interesting article about this:
http://io9.com/what-will-nasa-be-doing-with-its-new-quantum-computer-1468333514
More about D-Wave Two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Two
Image credit: NASA Ames / John Hardman
Is this the same quantum computer with collaboration of Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team and NASA?
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ReplyDeleteDidn't understand that. First time for a long time that I have felt completely brainless and stupid. I had no idea wtf they were talking about aha
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