NASA's new Quantum Computer

[Merlin5]

'According to physicist David Deutsch, a quantum system can work on a million computations at once while a standard desktop PC works on just one. Put another way, a 30-qubit system would be equal in processing power to a traditional 10 teraflop machine, which crunches trillions of operations each second.'

http://io9.com/what-will-nasa-be-doing-with-its-new-quantum-computer-1468333514

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. ( Cool literally).

 

[Kosmiche]

Can it run Crysis?

 

[233]

skynet in the making we're all doomed.



seriously though its fantastic to see this starting to come out into the real world hopefully we'll see massive strides over the next few years, I would love to see the stuff their working on and NOT telling us about just now

 

[233]

Can it run Crysis?

no, not unless you can convert crisis into a qubo form.

 

[Maccapacca]

No competitors

 

[cainer]

8pack has one, i hear he overclocked it

 

[Derek W]

looks like they used an antec skeleton

 

[Cosimo]

Video looks very familiar....

 

[muon]

So does this actually work? Isn't encryption useless if it does?

 

[233]

8pack has one, i hear he overclocked it

probably sitting in the corner dribbling at the thought of having a cpu cooled down to nigh on absolute zero.

imagine the world records

 

[Participant]

Can it run Crysis?

No competitors

<3

 

[Energize]

So does this actually work? Isn't encryption useless if it does?

No. One time pad is still unbreakable.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I wonder if they run SETI@Home on there?

 

[arknor]

I wonder if they run SETI@Home on there?

bitcoin mining ! now we know why the difficulty jumped up so much in the past months

 

[randal]

So does this actually work? Isn't encryption useless if it does?

Once an interface is written, I'd imagine so.

Speaking of interfaces, who on Earth (quite literally) is going to have the intelligence to write a language that can be used to fully exploit the power of this sort of technology?

It's going to be a fairly limited set of brilliant minded folk who do, which means they're either going to have to write a simpler form for everyday people or this is going to remain with the elite Shirley?

 

[86JR]

Can it crack Cryptolockers encryption?

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

probably sitting in the corner dribbling at the thought of having a cpu cooled down to nigh on absolute zero.

imagine the world records

I read current CPU's / hardware around CPU sockets don't work below a certain temp. when I was puzzled why 8-pack/others weren't using liquid helium instead of nitrogen.

 

[Energize]

Once an interface is written, I'd imagine so.

It's mathematically proven that it's impossible to brute force symmetric encryption with a linear quantum computer any faster than O(n/2), in practice this has no effect on the security of modern encryption algorithms like serpent, twofish and AES, which can use 256-bit or greater size keys. And no quantum algorithm has been found that breaks many modern asymmetric encryption systems faster than classical algorithms either.

The NASA computer though is only using quantum annealing anyway, it's not a true quantum computer.

 

[nelviss]

i heard that the project is going to take the 8pack and use him as a over clock as no other beining on earth could withstand the thingsy that are needed and he may well be the first real super man (or a pile of mush), (a lie)

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

i heard that the project is going to take the 8pack and use him as a over clock as no other beining on earth could withstand the thingsy that are needed and he may well be the first real super man (or a pile of mush), (a lie)

broke my eyes.