My PI has talked with the people at USC who are hosting the DWave system purchased by Lockheed . Apparently the DWave machine is literally a black box in every way you can imagine . They aren ' t allowed to open up the chasis , they have command line scripts to send in the experiments they want to run , every so often DWave remotely logs in to do calibration on the system , the whole thing is painted black . Aside from the whole quantum annealing isn ' t proven to have computational speedup and their physical circuits may not even be all that quantum , I do find it reminiscent of the joke you can make a random number generator by only returning 3 as long as you don ' t look at the code . Thinking of it that way would add a bit more humour to the conversation if people weren ' t taking Dwave so seriously .