<div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>It seems to me that one way or the other this matter will be settled soon. D-wave says the number of qbits in it's chips has been doubling every year, if that rate continues then by this time next year they should have a 1000 qbit chip, and if its really working by quantum annealing and not the classical sort then is should be able to solve QUBO type problems much much faster than the largest supercomputer running any known classical algorithm; and if it can't then D-wave could go the way of Bigfoot and cold fusion.</span></blockquote>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>So the answer to my original question appears to be that you can use it for general purpose computing, but you probably shouldn't. Just like a Connection Machine, it is good for some things, and not so hot for word processing. Does that about sum it up?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>