d-wave systems , inc. is a quantum computing company , based in burnaby , british columbia , canada .

d-wave is the first company in the world to sell quantum computers.citation needed ] citation needed ] the d-wave one was built on early prototypes such as d-wave 's orion quantum computer .

the prototype was a 16-qubit quantum annealing processor , demonstrated on february 13 , 2007 at the computer history museum in mountain view , california .

d-wave demonstrated what they claimed to be a 28-qubit quantum annealing processor on november 12 , 2007 .

the chip was fabricated at the nasa jet propulsion laboratory microdevices lab in pasadena , california .

the underlying ideas for the d-wave approach arose from experimental results in condensed matter physics , and in particular work on quantum annealing in magnets performed by dr. gabriel aeppli .

these ideas were later recast in the language of quantum computation by mit physicists ed farhi , seth lloyd , terry orlando and bill kaminsky , whose publications in 2000 and 2004 provided both a theoretical model for quantum computation that fit with the earlier work in quantum magnetism ( specifically the adiabatic quantum computing model and quantum annealing , its finite temperature variant ) , and a specific enablement of that idea using superconducting flux qubits which is a close cousin to the designs d-wave produced .

in order to understand the origins of much of the controversy around the d-wave approach , it is important to note that the origins of the d-wave approach to quantum computation arose not from the conventional quantum information field , but from experimental condensed matter physics .

on may 11 , 2011 , d-wave systems announced d-wave one , described as " the world 's first commercially available quantum computer " , operating on a 128-qubit chipset using quantum annealing ( a general method for finding the global minimum of a function by a process using quantum fluctuations ) to solve optimization problems .

in may 2013 , a collaboration between nasa , google and the universities space research association ( usra ) launched a quantum artificial intelligence lab based on the d-wave two 512-qubit quantum computer that would be used for research into machine learning , among other fields of study .

on august 20 , 2015 , d-wave systems announced the general availability of the d-wave 2x system , a 1000 + qubit quantum computer .

this was followed by an announcement on september 28 , 2015 that it had been installed at the quantum artificial intelligence lab at nasa ames research center .

in january 2017 , d-wave has released the d-wave 2000q and qbsolv .

qbsolv is a piece of open-source software that solves qubo problems on both company 's quantum processors and classic hardware architectures .

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d - wave systems <EOT> d - wave systems inc . strong transactional experience within erp systems . most customers access our quantum systems through the cloud . . . .

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d - wave systems ' s president & ceo , vern brownell , currently has an approval rating of 91 % . d - wave systems ' s primary competitors are

d - wave is a developer and provider of quantum computing systems and software for defense , scientific , technical and other commercial applications . d - wave systems was founded in 1999 . d - wave systems ' headquarters is located in burnaby , british columbia . . .

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since d - wave systems was founded in 1999 , it has participated in 10 rounds of funding . in total d - wave systems has raised $ 165 . 5m . d - wave systems ' last funding round was on oct 2016 for a total of $ 21 . 0m

d - wave systems currently has 10 , 247 fans on facebook . as of july 2013 d - wave systems had 264 fans . that ' s a 3781 percent increase in 5 years

d - wave is a developer and provider of quantum computing systems and software for defense , scientific , technical and other commercial applications . d - wave systems is a private company . vern brownell is the president & ceo of d - wave systems and has an approval rating of 91 from owler members . d - wave systems has raised a total of $ 165 . 5m in funding . d - wave systems ' s top competitor is 1qbit , led by andrew fursman , who is their co - founder . d - wave systems has 57 followers on owler .

d - wave systems currently has 7 , 988 followers on twitter . as of july 2013 d - wave systems had 1 , 030 followers . that ' s a 675 percent increase in 4 years

a brief introduction to d - wave and quantum computing . read the d - wave overview

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d - wave systems inc . builds annealing devices that exhibit quantum effects . these devices as well as other physical systems implement a programmable ising model of the form .

d - wave orion 16 - qubit processor ( credit : d - wave / j . chung )

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d - wave systems inc . is the world’s first commercial quantum computing company — and the deal with google is the largest in d - wave’s history . google and its partners get to access the latest d - wave machines for up to seven years , with new generations of d - wave systems to be installed at the nasa ames facility as they are available .

d - wave 2000q quantum computers are available this quarter for shipment , with systems also accessible to subscribers remotely over the internet .

magiq is a top competitor of d - wave systems . magiq ' s headquarters is in somerville , massachusetts , and was founded in 1999 . magiq competes in the computer hardware field . magiq generates 15 % of d - wave systems ' s revenue .

d - wave’s quantum computers are being already used by the los alamos national laboratory , google , nasa , and lockheed martin . d - wave’s goal is to upgrade all those systems .

the d - wave 2x is the latest product release from d - wave systems inc , and is the most powerful quantum computer in the world . the d - wave 2x features a 1000 + qubit quantum processor and numerous des . . .

1qbit is one of d - wave systems ' s top competitors . 1qbit is a private company that was founded in vancouver , british columbia in 2012 . 1qbit is in the computer hardware field . 1qbit has 307 more employees vs . d - wave systems .

ibm systems svp tom rosamilla said : " we envision ibm q systems working in concert with our portfolio of classical high - performance systems to address problems that are currently unsolvable , but hold tremendous untapped value . "

d - wave systems ' quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that the fastest supercomputers available today just can ' t crack .

while it’s widely agreed d - wave’s systems are using quantum computing for calculations , it isn’t clear if the technology will ever be able to tackle real - world problems . at present , d - wave’s systems are only suitable for solving so - called optimisation problems .

d - wave systems is the first commercial quantum computing company . founded in 1999 , d - wave ' s mission is to integrate new discoveries in physics and computer science into breakthrough approaches to comp

d - wave systems ' s revenue is the fourth highest among it ' s top 10 competitors . the top 10 competitors average $ .

d - wave systems has employees and is the first highest among it ' s top 10 competitors . the top 10 competitors average 126 .

d - wave systems has broken the quantum computing 1000 qubit barrier , developing a processor about double the size of d - wave’s previous generation , and far exceeding the number of qubits ever developed by d - wave or any other quantum effort , the announcement said .

cambridge quantum computing is perceived as one of d - wave systems ' s biggest rivals . cambridge quantum computing was founded in 2013 in cambridge , england . cambridge quantum computing competes in the computer hardware industry . cambridge quantum computing generates $ 18m more revenue than d - wave systems .

d - wave’s release of qbsolv adds to a growing software ecosystem that enables application developers to use d - wave’s quantum systems more quickly and easily . quantum software companies such as 1qbit , qc ware and qxbranch as well as users of d - wave’s systems are building tools and applications . d - wave often works with these diverse groups to foster development of software that is both useful and effectively leverages quantum resources .

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more broadly , i’d say there are two fundamental differences between bosonsampling and the d - wave approach .

henning – actually tesla is a lot more credible than d - wave . d - wave and virgin galactic could be about the same .

d - wave ' s first customer upgrades to the recently announced 1 , 000 + qubit d - wave 2x quantum computer . . .

furthermore , one vendor – d - wave systems – has been delivering one generation of quantum computer after another for a few years now . its latest model has 2 , 000 cubits , and they’ve actually sold at least one of them . ( see my 2015 article on d - wave systems . )

d - wave continues to find new customers for its systems . a d - wave 2000q system was also installed at the quantum artificial intelligence lab run by google , nasa , and universities space research association early in 2018 .

geordie rose , founder and cto of d - wave systems describes some of the challenges the team had to overcome in building the first commercial quantum computer .

burnaby - based d - wave systems is partnering with the creative destruction lab at the university of toronto’s rotman school of management to support quantum machine learning .

ibm says it will build commercially available quantum computing systems accessed through its cloud platform , but d - wave has a claimed quantum computer 400 times bigger .

in late 2010 lockheed martin became the first d‑wave customer . their 128 - qubit d‑wave one system , installed at usc’s information sciences institute , was upgraded to the 512 - qubit d‑wave two system in 2013 , then upgraded again to the 1000 + qubit d‑wave 2x quantum computer in 2015 .

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the isi also has its own d - wave computer which it operates on behalf of defence firm lockheed martin , d - wave’s first paying client .

lockheed martin is one of the largest defense contractors in the world . it operates in aeronautics , information systems & global solutions , missile and fire control , mission systems and training , and space systems . lockheed martin designs highly elaborate systems . yet , on average , half the cost of creating them is on verification and validation ( v and v ) .

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forget pcs and servers : d - wave systems is looking into the future with its quantum computer , up to 1 , 000 times faster than an earlier model .

if d - wave systems’ new chief financial officer has any problems calculating numbers on the job , it’s likely he’ll have ample assistance from the burnaby company’s own hardware .

we are deep into 2011 now , and d - wave is still at 128 qbits . hardly the 1000 plus predicted by d - wave for 2008 .

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the d - wave 2000q system will be installed at ames later this year .

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even though d - wave calls its systems " computers " , john morton , professor of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics at ucl , said that just as a calculator isn ' t a computer , the d - wave system isn ' t a universal quantum computer .

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this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about d - wave systems ' quantum computers , machines that could one day tackle problems that would be impossible to solve today .

however , much of the promise of the d - wave systems lie in their future , and there are some who cast doubt on whether that potential will ever be reached .

the 2 , 000 - qubit quantum computer will be 500 to 1000 times faster than its predecessor , said jeremy hilton , senior vice president of systems at d - wave .

i think it was established here that google & nasa did not invest in d - wave but bought specific version of d - wave product . either d - wave machine showed private results that impressed the buyers or it is what scott 508 says

i wish somebody from d - wave would defend the company on this post . whenever scott talks about d - wave all i can think is “sour grapes . ”

notably , the latter includes the forthcoming d - wave processor , which brownell says will end all doubt that they’ve leaped ahead of classical systems — and will forever leave them behind .

one important caveat for d - wave’s systems as well as every other quantum computer under development : they require near - absolute zero temperatures , making them expensive and difficult to operate .

williams is director of business development at quantum computing company d - wave systems , as well as an author , researcher , and noted thinker in the field in his own right .

here is a recent daniel lidar talk about experiments on the d - wave one .

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dr . daniel lidar talking about experiments on his d - wave one quantum computer .

more information on d - wave’s technology can be found on the company’s official website .

the installation of the d - wave 2x system will be completed in january 2016 .

a 512 - qubit chip for one of d - wave ' s quantum computers .

d - wave ' s quantum computer is a limited version called a quantum annealer .

companies have also done extensive testing of d - wave’s systems , and they are promising . just this december , google announced that d - wave’s latest model was 100 million times faster than its conventional computing counterpart at solving a test problem involving almost 1 , 000 variables .

d - wave deployed what was considered the first quantum computer in 2011 , and its systems have been purchased by google , lockheed martin , nasa , and the los alamos national laboratory .

because d - wave is a decade ahead of every other competing technology when it comes engineering and systems integration . d - wave machines do actually work on real - world problems . they do not work as well as carefully - tuned classical approaches , but they do work .

grasshopper – regardless of how d - wave uses the money , lockheed’s payment to d - wave is at least $ 10 million , and that is in effect public money .

[ … ] order a d - wave two quantum computer . scott aaronson wrote an informative critique titled “d - wave : truth finally starts to emerge” in his [ … ]

goldman sachs group is an investor in d - wave systems , another quantum player , as is in - q - tel , the cia - backed venture capital company , says vern brownell , ceo of d - wave . the company makes machines that do something called quantum annealing .

the d - wave 2x is the latest product release from d - wave systems inc , and is the most powerful quantum computer in the world . the d - wave 2x features a 1000 + qubit quantum processor and numerous design improvements that result in larger problem sizes , faster performance and higher precision . links : benchmarking paper : urltoken d - wave 2x press release : urltoken quantum artificial intelligence lab upgrade press release : urltoken video made by : dominic walliman urltoken

i tested the hunch ( # 270 ) that you could solve d - wave’s native problem in software faster than d - wave , and found ( assuming no mistakes ) that you can beat d - wave by quite some margin using a simple c program . as far as i can see , this proves that d - wave is not currently a useful computational device since it means you can make a universal d - wave simulator in software .

burnaby , bc – january 24 , 2017 — d - wave systems inc . , the leader in quantum computing systems and software , today announced general commercial availability of the d - wave 2000q™ quantum computer . d - wave also announced the first customer for the new system , temporal defense systems inc . ( tds ) , a cutting - edge cyber security firm . with 2000 qubits and new control features , the new system can solve larger problems than was previously possible , with faster performance , providing a big step toward production applications in optimization , cybersecurity , machine learning , and sampling .

abstract : harris & harris group , inc . ( nasdaq : tiny ) notes that on may 25 , 2011 , d - wave systems , inc . , and lockheed martin corporation announced that lockheed martin has entered into an agreement to purchase a quantum computing system from d - wave .

been pre - approved by the international d - wave hype repeaters association . namely , the same usc paper that reported the quantum annealing behavior of the d - wave one , also

a d - wave machine is exploring how planetary rovers can autonomously manage schedules and time .

big blue has a five - qubit quantum computer ready for use now . it intends to build commercial ibm q systems with ~ 50 qubits in the next few years to demonstrate capabilities beyond today ' s classical systems , and plans to collaborate with key industry partners to develop applications that exploit the quantum speedup of the systems .

d - wave systems builds the world ' s first and only commercial quantum computers . the scientists , engineers and executives here are among the many people who have contributed to this historic achievem . . .

another question that has come up in discussing d - wave’s systems is that your papers don’t seem to demonstrate any entanglement , which a lot of people in the quantum computing field think is necessary to have significantly fast computing . ( i’m thinking specifically of schoelkophf lab’s experiments at yale . ) do the d - wave systems demonstrate entanglement ? if not , how does that impact the speed of the optimization calculations ?

d - wave systems inc . , the leader in quantum computing systems and software , and fixstars corporation of japan today announced a collaboration to advance the growth of quantum computing . fixstars is a leader in providing cpu / gpu / fpga acceleration technologies , using its software parallelization and optimization expertise . fixstars is now launching a professional service to help organizations realize the benefits and advantages of d - wave quantum computers .

in 2010 we released our first commercial system , the d - wave one™ quantum computer . we have doubled the number of qubits in successive generations , shipping the 512 - qubit d - wave two™ system in 2013 and the 1000 + qubit d - wave 2x™ system in 2015 . in 2017 we released the d - wave 2000q™ system with 2000 qubits and advanced control features .

d - wave systems inc . uses the relatively new adiabatic model , also known as quantum annealing . this architecture allows its quantum bits , or qubits , to shift from superposition to a traditional computer state .

some of the authors are employees of d - wave systems inc . , a company seeking to develop a processor that uses a computational model known as quantum annealing . this work describes progress in that effort .

in this video we look at the different systems that make up a d - wave quantum computer . we show what the cooling system involves , the electromagnetic shielding and how the electronics system program . . .

palo alto , ca – march 13 , 2017 - d - wave systems inc . , the leader in quantum computing systems and software , announced that google , nasa , and universities space research association ( usra ) have elected to upgrade their d - wave 2x™ quantum computer to the new d - wave 2000q™ system , under the terms of their multi - year agreement , to support quail ' s pioneering research on how quantum computing can be applied to artificial intelligence , machine learning , and difficult optimization problems .

“working with the d - wave processors has helped us develop and fine - tune models of quantum annealing , ” said hartmut neven , director of engineering for google and head of the quantum artificial intelligence lab . “we look forward to the continued advancements coming from each generation of d - wave systems . ”

look , i appreciate the pressure d - wave is under , more so after this visit .

[ … ] of d - wave’s claims is much of what scott aaronson has wrote about them . see for example urltoken , urltoken although interestingly after he visited d - wave’s [ … ]

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download this white paper to learn more about the programming model for a d - wave system .

d - wave ' s quantum computers use very different technology to that found in everyday computers .

google teams up with d - wave to produce a faster automated image search . but , …

with the d - wave , the theory is not as much developed , " he said .

d - wave says it has a 2 , 000 - qubit quantum computer plus a qbsolv compiler available on github for its quantum computer . there is some dispute whether d - wave ' s systems are real quantum computers or not . notwithstanding that google and nasa have bought one and are pleased with it .

[ … ] presumably d - wave systems got together a lot of smart graph theorists and ic designers and thought really hard about these problems . what they came up with was the chimera graph : [ … ]

the new anneal offsets control feature enables users to tune the annealing of individual qubits . combined with a faster annealing time over previous d - wave systems , problems can be solved more efficiently , improving application performance .

the d - wave 2000q system outperformed the gpu - based implementations by 100 times in equivalent problem solving performance per watt . power efficiency is a serious and growing issue in large - scale computing . the power draw of d - wave’s systems has remained constant in successive generations , and is expected to continue to do so while the computational power increases dramatically . as a result , the computational power per watt is expected to increase much more rapidly for d - wave qpus than for classical systems . link to technical white paper .

in this paper , we provide an introduction to quantum annealers , which are analogue quantum computing devices , and their potential application to solve hard optimisation problems . we summarise our benchmarks performed on a " wave two " machine by canadian company d - wave systems inc .

investigations of quantum computing were originally motivated by the possibility of efficiently simulating quantum systems . here we approach this challenge using a d - wave 2000q system to estimate quantum boltzmann statistics . we compare performance with state - of - the - art classical monte carlo simulations of the quantum systems , and find that , over the problems studied , the d - wave processor realizes a performance advantage over classical methods that increases with simulated system size .

even though d - wave has only sold a handful of its quantum computers , it continues to attract buyers for its machines and to generate interest in its technology . the carmaker volkswagen has been working with d - wave since 2017 , using its systems to model traffic flows and develop more efficient batteries for electric cars .

because d - wave managed ( via clever marketing ) to scare a few organizations with deep pockets into thinking that if they didn ' t buy d - wave systems , they could miss that once - in - a - lifetime opportunity to have a miraculous quantum computer at hand while their competitors / enemies do not .

…i’d say the leading contenders are still superconducting flux qubits like those used by d - wave . if d - wave wanted to put heisenberg style couplings ( i . e . , at least pauli - xx as well as pauli - zz ) onto their chips they’d have to do some combination of

in may 2013 , there were two d - wave - related papers published that attracted some interest .

“d - wave paper [ 1 ] ” ( boixo et al ) concerned d - wave one ( 108 qubits ) and gave some indirect arguments that the device is behaving like a genuine quantum annealer .

d - wave’s latest processor has 2 , 000 qubits — far surpassing the capacity of previous models .

d - wave is looking to work with a cloud partner , but brownell declined to identify candidates . one possibility is google . in 2009 , google researcher hartmut neven cowrote a paper with d - wave researchers that showed that the d - wave system might be useful for searching across large image databases .

this year d - wave sold its first commercial quantum computer to lockheed martin . lockheed officials said the computer would be used for the test and measurement of things like jet aircraft designs , or the reliability of satellite systems .

if your “scam” scenario came to pass google would eventually write - off the investment and d - wave will be toast . d - wave doesn’t want this , so they will try everything to improve their chips to prevent this form happening . you’d call it stone soup , i’d call it market forces .

i even hope the academic qc community will contribute to d - wave’s success , by doing careful independent studies like the usc group did , and by coming up with proposals like lidar’s for how d - wave could move forward . on the other hand , in the strange , unlikely event that d - wave

run the problem on the d - wave machine . for the d - wave 2 , purchased by google and located at the nasa ames research center , google has developed a proxy server that interfaces with the actual d - wave machine that will allow the user to submit batch jobs to the quantum machine .

d - wave is still discovering uses for its quantum computer . los alamos national laboratory bought a d - wave system to study new computer designs and uses . google is using the computer for machine learning and other applications . d - wave is also offering remote access to its quantum computer to specific users .

the present systems and methods generally relate to using sorting networks to generate permutations by a quantum processor for solving combinatorial problems .

palo alto , ca – september 28 , 2015 - d - wave systems inc . , the world ' s first quantum computing company , announced that it has entered into a new agreement covering the installation of a succession of d - wave systems located at nasa’s ames research center in moffett field , california . this agreement supports collaboration among google , nasa and usra ( universities space research association ) that is dedicated to studying how quantum computing can advance artificial intelligence and machine learning , and the solution of difficult optimization problems . the new agreement enables google and its partners to keep their d - wave system at the state - of - the - art for up to seven years , with new generations of d - wave systems to be installed at nasa ames as they become available .

when are d - wave quantum computers happening ? d - wave plans to continue to develop its quantum processors , is backed by high - profile investors and continues to sell machines to the occasional early adopter .

i’d never heard of d - wave until this morning and the news reports looked rather suspicious . i landed on your blog after doing a google search .

“the new agreement is the largest order in d - wave’s history , and indicative of the importance of quantum computing in its evolution toward solving problems that are difficult for even the largest supercomputers , ” said d - wave ceo vern brownell . “we highly value the commitment that our partners have made to d - wave and our technology , and are excited about the potential use of our systems for machine learning and complex optimization problems . ”

google operates a d - wave systems’ quantum computer in the quantum artificial intelligence lab ( quail ) . the lab is hosted by nasa and the universities space research association at the nasa ames research center in mountain view , california .

if quantum computer is imposible then nothing to do with quantum simulation also becouse then it’s means that all tryings to simulate quantum systems are wrong and need search another method to simulate quantum systems and which then probably don’t scals exponentionaly with number of particles .

palo alto , ca - - ( marketwired - nov 16 , 2015 ) - d - wave systems inc . , the world ' s first quantum computing company , today announced that it has entered into a multi - year agreement with lockheed martin ( nyse : lmt ) to upgrade the company’s 512 - qubit d - wave two™ quantum computer to the new d - wave 2x™ system with 1 , 000 + qubits . this represents the second system upgrade since lockheed martin became d - wave ' s first customer in 2011 with the purchase of a 128 qubit d - wave one™ system . the agreement includes the system , maintenance and associated professional services .

i think that this is what scott meant by a reductio ad absurdum of d - wave’s technical philosophy .

henning # 425 , i cited that just because d - wave quite politely and accurately expressed they point .

i do agree that d - wave has not yet convincingly demonstrated that their chips are better at anything .

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" d - wave is driving the hardware forward , " says d - wave international president bo ewald . " but we need more smart people thinking about applications , and another set thinking about software tools . "

scepticism surrounds the ultimate potential of d - wave machines , but researchers are already finding uses for them .

" so when d - wave shows you many different industries that might use a d - wave machine , there may be many areas that it can be used in , but it remains a specialized device . "

the binary optimization problem that d - wave processors excel at has practical applications in a variety of areas .

tfot coverage of d - wave’s 16 - qubit quantum computer – the “orion” , can be found here .

d - wave ' s colin williams says classical computers solve the problem by hopping from point to point .

a quantum physics phenomenon called quantum tunnelling allows d - wave ' s computer to do more than that .

“d - wave continues to advance the state - of - the - art in quantum computing with each generation of systems we deliver to customers , ” said vern brownell , d - wave’s ceo . “we are the only company selling quantum computers , and our growing ecosystem of users and developers gives us the benefit of their practical experience as we develop products to solve real - world problems . while other organizations have prototypes with just a few qubits in their labs , d - wave is delivering the systems , software , training , and services needed to build an industry . ”

“we solve a multi - period portfolio optimization problem using d - wave systems ' quantum annealer . we derive a formulation of the problem , discuss several possible integer encoding schemes , and present numerical examples that show high success rates . ”

the sales team works with leading organizations in industry , government and academia to promote , sell and support d - wave’s technology . our diverse team includes people with backgrounds in high performance computing , systems engineering , physics and quantum computing .

however , these processors are also fundamentally more limited in the breadth of problems they can tackle than the general - purpose computers in use today , with d - wave ' s systems only able to handle a specific type of computation .

“the new system will be the third generation of d - wave technology installed at ames , ” said d - wave ceo vern brownell . “we are pleased that google , nasa , and usra value the increased performance embodied in our latest generation of technology , the d - wave 2000q system , for their critical applications . ”

“d - wave paper [ 2 ] ” ( mcgeoch - wang ) concerned the more recent d - wave two machine ( 439 qubits , potentially 512 ) . it provides comparisons of d - wave two ( together with a software layer called blackbox ) against some combinatorial optimisation solvers running on classical hardware for three specific tasks .

perhaps soon , d - wave ( or some similar company ) will give detailed press conferences like intel’s … to understand d - wave’s design rules even in outline , would be a major advance for the whole community .

some critics have argued that d - wave ' s technique isn ' t true quantum computing , while other researchers have validated the method . either way , d - wave is providing a powerful computer benefiting its customers .

“d - wave systems” and dr . hartmut neven – a scientist from google , will demonstrate an image recognition algorithm running on a quantum computer , at the “super computing 2007” ( sc07 ) conference . the conference will take place in nevada this week . the device , developed by the canadian “d - wave systems” company , is claimed to be the first practical and commercially viable quantum computer . the computer carries out multiple calculations simultaneously , thus achieving faster computation results than conventional computers .

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cybersecurity firm temporal defense systems bought the d - wave 2000q – the firm’s first 2 , 000 quantum bit ( qubit ) quantum computer – and although the price it paid has not been revealed , the computer is valued $ 15 million .

d - wave has installed more than $ 50 million worth of quantum systems at customer sites . the d - wave 2000q system is available through sale or lease as a standalone system , or via our quantum cloud . we also provide competition - winning , quantum - inspired machine learning services , application development services , and custom fabrication of superconducting circuits .

so from a scientific perspective , in some sense i’d be swayed even less by whatever patents d - wave has than by its media coverage or its business deals .

knowing that you have a physics degree i wanted to learn more about what attracts you to d - wave .

look , i promise this will be the last d - wave post in a while . but there have been two developments that , as planet earth’s primary d - wave skepticism clearinghouse , i feel a duty to report .

give scott a break , d - wave has made many bold statements and offered little proof . now d - wave had given a fragment of proof scott is willing to step back and let the physicists have a go .

the quantum artificial intelligence lab will use the most advanced commercially available quantum computer , the d - wave two .

d - wave announced two new features for its 2000q quantum annealing computer : reverse annealing , bringi . . .

who do d - wave quantum computers affect ? mainly large organizations with deep pockets , as each d - wave machine costs $ 15m . however , while early customers are restricted to the likes of lockheed martin , the us government , google , and nasa , d - wave also provides access to its machines via a cloud service .

update : this story has been updated to clarify daniel lidar ' s postion on the d - wave machine .

( physorg . com ) - - taking another step toward demonstrating quantum behavior in a quantum computer , researchers from the vancouver - based company d - wave systems , inc . , have performed a technique called quantum annealing , which . . .

8 . intel is focused on using quantum computing to make gains in advanced manufacturing , electronics , and better systems for architectural design .

fig . 4 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary digital computer that may be used in conjunction with the present systems and methods .

ibm ' s five - qubitter seems rather small beer compared to a 2 , 000 - qubit d - wave system . you ' d think that if d - wave was up to 2 , 000 qubits then ibm ' s boffins wouldn ' t be messing around with systems 400 times smaller . but this is quantum mechanics where two things can be true at once – so what the heck do we know ?

founded in 1999 , d - wave systems is the world ' s first quantum computing company and the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software . our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing to solve the world ' s most challenging problems . our systems are being used by world - class organizations and institutions including lockheed martin , google , nasa , usc , usra , los alamos national laboratory , oak ridge national laboratory , volkswagen , and many others . d - wave has been granted over 160 u . s . patents and has published over 100 peer - reviewed papers in leading scientific journals .

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( with correction ) are easier than the hardest in the class of instances that could be set up on a d - wave machine . it would be interesting to see how d - wave performs on these more testing problems .

florian neukart , david von dollen , gabriele compostella , christian seidel , sheir yarkoni , and bob parney ( volkswagen group of america , san francisco ; volkswagen data lab , munich , germany ; d - wave systems inc . , burnaby , canada )

us department of energy researchers at oak ridge national laboratory in tennessee will have cloud access to a d - wave 2000q system , allowing them to explore hybrid computing architectures , with a view to accelerating the development of software designed to run exascale systems .

but what i’d like to see , if you can ( check with your ip lawyers ) , why d - wave’s system would not be able to process shor’s algorithm .

long - time slashdot reader haruchai writes : canadian company d - wave has released their qbsolv tool on github to help bolster interest and familiarity with quantum computing . " qbsolv is a metaheuristic or partitioning solver that solves a potentially large qubo problem by splitting it into pieces that are solved either on a d - wave system or via a classical tabu solver , " they write on github . this joins the qmasm macro assembler for d - wave systems , a tool written in python by scott pakin of los alamos national labs . d - wave president bo ewald says " d - wave is driving the hardware forward but we need more smart people thinking about applications , and another set thinking about software tools . "

fig . 9 is an illustrative schematic diagram of an exemplary computational solver system for solving problems in accordance with the present systems and methods .

given these obvious issues , why is google buying into d - wave ' s system ? quite simple : google doesn ' t give a damn if it is a quantum computer or not , just that it works , and works better than existing systems .

scott has clearly discovered an algorithm that can create anti - d wave arguments longer than the lifetime of the universe .

on the other hand , it’s important to understand that all of these questions would’ve gotten some attention even without d - wave—and furthermore , it’s possible that other interesting questions would’ve gotten more attention without d - wave taking up people’s time .

conclusion some common measures of computational complexity are not well - adapted to assessing the implications of d - wave’s achievements .

“honest effort” , good grief , lol . i can’t resist a recent quote from vern brownell of d - wave :

1 . the title of the news is over stating what d - wave computer has done . d - wave did not solve protein folding problem , instead it solved an extraordinarily simplified model of the problem with only 40 discrete states .

orion chip’s sample holder attached to one of our dilution fridges ( credit : d - wave / j . chung )

d - wave burned its bridges with the scientific community in 2007 when it unveiled its first machine but didn ' t offer any peer - reviewed research to explain the thing . according to uc davis ' kuperberg , the press conference misrepresented not only quantum computing but theoretical computer science in general . " since then , discussions with d - wave or about d - wave have tended to veer toward the question of d - wave ' s credibility , " kuperberg says .

as part of the joint effort , d - wave personnel will work with ornl to map applications to the d - wave architecture in order to solve new types of problems , and to solve existing problems faster by combining computing architectures .

the system is d - wave’s follow - up to the 1 , 000 qubit 2x , released in august 2015 .

a : to his credit , geordie rose ( the founder of d - wave ) does understand this ; see here for example . and yet , essentially every article i’ve read about d - wave gives readers exactly the opposite impression . the charitable explanation is that the d - wave folks are being selectively quoted or misquoted by journalists seeking to out - doofus one another . if so , one hopes that d - wave will try harder in the future to avoid misunderstandings .

d - wave systems , inc . is a quantum computing company , based in burnaby , british columbia . on may 11 , 2011 , d - wave system announced d - wave one , labeled " the world ' s first commercially available quantum computer , " and also referred to it as an adiabatic quantum computer using quantum annealing to solve optimization problems operating on an 128 qubit chip - set lockheed martin and d - wave collaboration on may 25 , 2011 , lockheed martin signed a multi - year contract with d - wave systems to realize the benefits based upon a quantum annealing processor applied to some of lockheed ' s most challenging computation problems . the contract also includes maintenance , associated professional services , and the purchase of the d - wave one quantum computer system . optimization problem solving in protein structure determination . in august 2012 , a team of harvard university researchers presented results of the largest protein folding problem solved to date using a quantum computer . the researchers solved instances of a lattice protein folding model , known as the miyazawa - jernigan model , on a d - wave one quantum computer . d - wave systems - wikipedia , the free encyclopedia file wave 128chip . jpg - wikipedia , the free encyclopedia bezos expeditions and iqt join current d - wave investors , including business development bank of canada , draper fisher jurvetson , goldman sachs , growthworks , harris & harris group , international investment and underwriting , and kensington partners limited . d - wave technological innovation and quantum computing applications development . " our intelligence community customers have many complex problems that tax classical computing architecture , " . soruce : d - wave , the quantum computing company i mean not bad for a company in burnaby plus when you have intelligence community customers and investors like goldman sachs lockheed martin and nasa ' s jpl

whether a dud or not aside ( and very crucial ) , d - wave’s already offering api’s for image recognition and sentiment analysis whereas the rest of the flock is still struggling to factor 15 . if d - wave’s hype did indeed turn not hype ( personally , i doubt it ) then d - wave is miles ahead of the rest of them .

determining community structure is a central topic in the study of complex and networked systems . we extended the concept of community detection from classical to quantum systems—a crucial missing component of a theory of complex networks based on quantum mechanics [ physical review x 4 , 041012 ( 2014 ) ] .

lockheed martin and d - wave will collaborate to realize the benefits of a computing platform based upon a quantum annealing processor , as applied to some of lockheed martin ' s most challenging computation problems . the multi - year contract includes a system , maintenance and associated professional services . d - wave develops computing systems that leverage the physics of quantum mechanics in order to address problems that are difficult for traditional methods to solve in a cost - effective amount of time . examples of such problems include software verification and validation , financial risk analysis , affinity mapping and sentiment analysis , object recognition in images , medical imaging classification , compressed sensing and bioinformatics . d - wave develops an architecture that is optimized for working with such problems . d - wave ' s press release may be accessed at urltoken harris & harris group is an investor in privately held d - wave systems , inc .

whether d - wave will make for faster - running or better artificial - intelligence systems is yet to be seen . lidar says that he has seen faster solvers . “every problem we have tested can still be solved faster on classical computers , ” he says .

d - wave is the only company selling a quantum computer . it sold its first system in 2011 and is now pushing the speed limits with a new quantum computer called the d - wave 2000q , which has 2 , 000 qubits .

as part of the joint effort , d - wave personnel will work with ornl to map applications to d - wave ' s architecture in order to solve new types of problems , and to solve existing problems faster by combining computing architectures .

d - wave is also going after the universal quantum computing model , hilton said . but the short - term goal is to discover more use models in areas like artificial intelligence where d - wave ' s quantum computer might hold promise .

in more detail , matthias troyer’s group spent a few months carefully studying the d - wave problem—after which , they were able to write optimized simulated annealing code that solves the d - wave problem on a normal , off - the - shelf classical computer , about 15 times faster than the d - wave machine itself solves the d - wave problem ! of course , if you wanted even more classical speedup than that , then you could simply add more processors to your classical computer , for only a tiny fraction of the ~ $ 10 million that a d - wave one would set you back .

nevertheless , the d - wave systems are the only commercially available quantum computers on the market today – an important milestone . “others are trying to do what may be a more mathematically or theoretically pure version of quantum computing , but they are years away from even solving simple problems , ” says d - wave ceo vern brownell . “we’re the only ones that have real customers . ”

just as the classical computing world needed a software ecosystem to build a broad community of application developers and users , the quantum computing world does as well . d - wave , quantum software companies , d - wave customers , and users are starting to develop system software , higher level tools , and applications that leverage the power of the d - wave system .

the significance of that 100 million speedup was disputed , on the grounds of the tests being synthetic and massively favoring the d - wave processor . however , d - wave said the test was meaningful because it demonstrated that d - wave ' s fundamental approach was sound , that the chips were capable of exploiting the phenomena called quantum tunnelling to help perform calculations .

( physorg . com ) - - last week , burnaby , british columbia - based company d - wave systems , inc . , announced that it sold its first commercial quantum computer . global security company lockheed martin , based in bethesda , maryland , . . .

it sounds to me like the d - wave publicity people simply need to be hooked up to a mild electric current .

d - wave’s a scam . pure and simple . any attempt to add nuance to what they are doing are distracting .

d - wave seems to have filed ( granted ? ) a lot of patents . what do you think about those ?

the annual cost of investing in d - wave’s computer is about 1 / 1000 of this value of lustre sustainment . so the break - even time for d - wave investment to sustain the lustre of nasa and google was about eight hours !

the answer to ( c ) is totally irrelevant to the question of whether d - wave has a reasonable business model .

it seems to me that scott and you argue that these constrains have been rigged to make d - wave look good .

scott and his collaborators have brilliantly debunked d - wave and that is to be applauded – especially because these things must be done right . it’s hugely important that d - wave doesn’t have a big influence on academia’s perception of quantum physics research .

( and it is uncanny that d - wave is running so many victory laps without yet any quantum error correction . )

indeed , posing sorting problems on d - wave’s current architecture would be quite inefficient . indeed , posing any problem on d - wave’s current architecture that’s not immediately expressible in terms of finding the ground state of an ising model is quite inefficient .

peter – “i do agree that d - wave has not yet convincingly demonstrated that their chips are better at anything . ”

but as the much ridiculed ramsey number paper illustrated actually mapping something optimally to d - wave’s architecture is yet another issue .

you try to scale up . so , please support d - wave if it wants to spend money to show bell inequality violations , or other “smoking - gun” evidence that its qubits are working together coherently . you’re welcome , d - wave !

yes , i’ve strongly objected to d - wave making claims about having a commercial product without first validating the underlying technology .

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d - wave’s physics and engineering team is responsible for research , development , and fabrication of the quantum computer hardware system .

d - wave is setting out to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to bring quantum computing into the ma . . .

in practice , of course , you’re never trying to solve qubo with the d - wave constraint graph , but only some other optimization problem that has to be reduced to d - wave’s problem , incurring considerable loss . but we now know that , even in the silly case that you did want to solve d - wave’s qubo problem and nothing else , you’d be better off to ask matthias for his code ( or download alex’s code ) and run it on your laptop , rather than spending $ 15 million for d - wave’s giant black box .