Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by taylodl on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:35AM
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What language is used to program for this processor? I wouldn't think you'd take the same approach programming a quantum computer as you would a conventional computer. Is there a quantum computer simulator? What does the development workflow look like? How do you debug? Boy I have a lot of questions!
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Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by dan-bell on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:42AM
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A friend of mine has been leaning the basics with this: http://qcplayground.withgoogle.com/#/home
Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by pakled_engineer on Friday August 21, 2015 @08:53AM
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Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by hodwik on Friday August 21, 2015 @10:21AM
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That's not to program for D-wave. They just need software developers in-house for their tooling.
There is one button - "on". There is no program. The program is baked into the machine itself. The input data is carefully prepared and fed into the system. The machine then runs and spits out the output. That's it.
You should think of it more as a piece of lab equipment rather than a computer.
Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by hodwik on Friday August 21, 2015 @10:06AM
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>What language is used to program for this processor?
Dwave doesn't work that way. You can think of it like an ASIC that can only do a single clock cycle as you bring it into a quantum state.
The only way to prepare for this stuff is by learning the proposed quantum algorithm maths.
Re:Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
by meatysnapper on Friday August 21, 2015 @02:42PM
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Think of a quantum computer as an analog computer. You don't program it, you construct it.