NASA and Google have teamed up with a number of universities with a D-Wave Two quantum computer purchased. Also, the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab is open to do research to quantumcomputing.
D-Wave sold its first quantum computer, the One, in 2011, to Lockheed Martin, a company that is mostly active in the defence industry. The D-Wave One was equipped with 128 qubits, where a qubit is the opposite of the bit in mainstream processors can be seen. The latest model, the D-Wave Two, which early this year was announced, is now bought by NASA and Google, for an estimated price of 15 million dollars. The Two would have 512 qubits, writes MIT Technology Review.
NASA, Google and a number of American universities have the quantum computer mainly bought for research into machine learning. For such research, the parties have the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab is open. It was agreed that the universities 20 per cent of the time researching to do with the D-Wave Two. Google and NASA are each 40 percent of the available computing time. Google sees the opportunity for his searches, and voice recognition, while NASA a variety of simulations will run.
Although skeptics initially argued that the D-Wave One and Two have no real quantumcomputers were, partly because not all qubits with each other interacteerden during the performing of calculations, are now many of them changed their mind. The systems could, in some scenarios indeed can instantly count on. So would the quantum computer D-Wave Two, in some cases, calculations with a factor of 3600 more able to perform than computers based on a binary architecture.
