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Re:D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System by gravypod on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:28PM (#12602702)
If your research is in breaking cryptography I'm sure the NSA would love to assist you. It's not like the NSA is hard pressed for cash.
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Re:D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System by lohankin on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:33PM (#12602721)
D-Wave's comp is useless for that.
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Re:D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System by djrjfndnfhf on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @09:33PM (#12602717)
Unfortunately the NSA doesn't do a lot of evolutionary structural optimization :/
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Re:D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System by valhalla on Thursday September 29, 2016 @12:43AM (#12603343)
Could a D-Wave be used to perform Shor's algorithm? I remember reading a long time ago that In-Q-Tel and an unnamed 3-letter agency had invested in D-Wave
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Re:D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System by AstralStorm on Thursday September 29, 2016 @01:22AM (#12603435)
It cannot. It can only run simulated annealing and return probabilistic results.
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