> Best I can tell they want to run aerodynamics simulations on it.

I'm a CFD guy and I have absolutely no clue how anyone expects to get any aerodynamics simulation results out of that with anything resembling usefulness.

Really, even a super-simple 2D wing profile simulation that you can run in milliseconds even in javascript will require data storage that's absolutely massive compared to 2000 qubits.

Also CFD guy, completely agree with the above.

Quantum computers have several algorithms for various applications, such ashort shors for factorization. Not aware of any algos for CFD.

Perhaps a rarefied gas dynamics, bolts man distribution sort of application could be created? At least in some cases quantum mechanical effects are significant...

They want to run anything on it, not just aerodynamics simulations. All the various sites across the US are encouraged to think of ways to use it and submit jobs remotely, whether its for aero, radar, missiles, etc

Yeah, but I got the impression that the aero sims were viewed as the low-hanging fruit to demonstrate that the computer could actually do things better than traditional machines.

Are you sure it's actually at Fort Worth? I know that they bought the one that's that's at USC's Information Sciences Institute, but I hadn't heard that the bought another one. As far as I know they've just paid for that one to be upgraded a couple times.

The one at USC definitely isn't being used for anything past the research level.

Yes. D-Wave approached me partly because I was already in Dallas and they needed someone on-site in Fort Worth to support Lockheed.