Quantum Annealing
...while keeping your supercool… and harnessing the refractive echoes of many trillions of parallel universes engaged in the computation…
D-Wave’s quantum annealing paper came out in Nature today (here's a plain English summary).
“Fabricated using standard integrated circuit processes, the processors tested contained 128 superconducting flux qubits and 24,000 devices known as Josephson junctions, making them among the most complex superconducting circuits ever built. Designed to solve optimization and sampling problems, the processors have been successfully used in a variety of tasks including financial risk analysis, bioinformatics, affinity mapping and sentiment analysis, object recognition in images, medical imaging classification and compressed sensing.”
It also makes a wicked machine learning coprocessor, as shown by Google.
Image courtesy of D-Wave. The brilliant monitoring squares are comb-meanders, and the wiring spacing forms a diffraction grating tuned to a specific wavelength of light.
Quantum Annealing
...while keeping your supercool… and harnessing the refractive echoes of many trillions of parallel universes engaged in the computation…
D-Wave’s quantum annealing paper came out in Nature today (here's a plain English summary).
“Fabricated using standard integrated circuit processes, the processors tested contained 128 superconducting flux qubits and 24,000 devices known as Josephson junctions, making them among the most complex superconducting circuits ever built. Designed to solve optimization and sampling problems, the processors have been successfully used in a variety of tasks including financial risk analysis, bioinformatics, affinity mapping and sentiment analysis, object recognition in images, medical imaging classification and compressed sensing.”
It also makes a wicked machine learning coprocessor, as shown by Google.
Image courtesy of D-Wave. The brilliant monitoring squares are comb-meanders, and the wiring spacing forms a diffraction grating tuned to a specific wavelength of light.