Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 22:12 UTC
A Canadian start-up says it will demonstrate a working commercial quantum computer in Mountain View next week, years ahead of many experts' predictions. Venture capital-funded to the tune of USD 20m, Vancouver-based D-Wave says it has built a quantum computer with 16 qubits - the quantum world's version of a digital bit, but which simultaneously encodes 1 and 0, so can carry more information and solve problems more quickly.
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2005-10-13
It's really no different than a normal cpu - you give it some arguments, tell it what to do, and then wait for it to spit out the results on the other end. What happens in the middle is different, but that has always been a "black box" anyway. Well, I guess it's actually a transparent box, but you know what I mean.
The real difference will be in the software algorithms. I imagine they probably came up with their own limited language as well to help out the compiler.