Buy Your Own Quantum Computer for $10 Million
No, it cannot play Crysis.
A Canadian company in Burnaby, BC is now selling a quantum computer that you can buy for your lab, or even your home if you have the resources and needs of Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark.
D-Wave Systems is offering the D-Wave One as the first commercial quantum computing system available on market. Dr. Geordie Rose, CTO of D-Wave, explained a bit about the D-Wave One's function in a blog post.
"The processor in the D-Wave One – codenamed Rainier – is designed to perform a single mathematical operation called discrete optimization. It is a special purpose processor," Rose wrote. "Rainier solves optimization problems using quantum annealing (QA), which is a class of problem solving approaches that use quantum effects to help get better solutions, faster."
The D-Wave One 129-qubit processor is only meant to tackle optimization problems. The other part of programs still runs on conventional systems.
Rose gave the simplified example of "supervised machine learning" for binary classification, such as yes or no. For example, an algorithm could train a binary classifier to return a response to an input of a first name of whether it is more likely to be a male or female name.
Obviously quantum computing has far greater reaches than just name classification, but artificial intelligence is one of the fields where the technology is going.
D-Wave's website for the machine is devoid of much info, but those who know they need it will know what it's all about. The only sticking point might be price, which Engadget was told is around $10 million. Yowza.
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Ask this one if humans are needed, if the answer is no you have Skynet and are in the real world if the answer is yes - take the blue pill!
Let me just pull out my quantum wallet...
AWESOME! small problem is the interesting only form of computation it does
Yeah, but can it play Crysis?
no no no , who cares about crysis now , crysis 2 is how can it paly that ????
jokes a side this joke is liek an 80 year old crack whore, used, abused, Thrown away a few decades ago
stop with the crysis jokes
so what can this computer do that my computer can't??? just use some CUDA computing...much faster at the same time
no. and you can't read either.
Give this about 5-6 years and it'll be sitting on the shelves at Fry's or Microcenter for about $200.00...
I think I just shot a quantum load...
no no no , who cares about crysis now , crysis 2 is how can it paly that ???? jokes a side this joke is liek an 80 year old crack whore, used, abused, Thrown away a few decades ago stop with the crysis jokes
While we are at it, learn spelling. Or "Spell Check".
that's nothing compared to my flux capacitor
There are an awful lot of zeroes after the 1.
Ten million dollars? Sure let me just get out my checkbook.
I have 3 on order.
Where is the tomshardware review?
What the hell is "$10 Milion"? Is that anything like $10 Million?
That's not a true quantum computer. That's sticking the word 'quantum' on regular silicon to charge a premium price.
That's like free to Goldman Sachs considering they would round 10 million down to zero.
Give me one that does Shor's algorithm so I can start my own wikileaks and it will pay for itself
their logo is nice, but I wouldn't give them 10 millions for their logo on a black box.
Now if they are willing to send me one of this "quantum" systems for "inspection"....
How big is a Milion (Mylion?) Is it a personal (my) numbering system? Interesting.
Oh man, I tried to apply for a technician position there but applied too late
So the D-Wave One should be able to put the smack-down on IBM's Watson because it would give the answer before the question was even asked, right?
I just checked, they are way cheaper on Ebay.
I believe the expression now is: Will it run The Witcher 2 on Ultra with Uber Sampling?
Maybe I find a cheaper clone on chinese website...
I don't care about Quantum computing until Apple tells me to...
Huh, one of my friends lives about a block from there. Actually, I think I got drunk in their parking lot.
how about quantum hocuspocus? your $10M - now you see it, now you don't.
I love the "related story" at the bottom: Experts doubt quantum computer's authenticity
Yea, but can it play World Of Warcrack?
I thought it was 128 qubit processor