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http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html The link above is where you can buy a quantum computer.
It's only 2012 and here I thought we'd have to wait until 2030 to see the day where you could buy a quantum computer. This is huge, quantum computers double in speed every two years(two times faster than moores law).
The most mind boggling thing about them is they don't use traditional binary bits to store information, but qubits. Qubits can be 0, 0.1, 0.2, .... , and 1 whereas your traditional computer can only hold values of either 0 or 1. So basically we're going from integers to natural numbers, the speed of data structures and algorithms will be astronomically faster on a quantum computer, we just have to wait for a quantum processor to be released with enough qubits to handle real world problems.
If you use quantum computers on artificial intelligence, than you would pretty much have yourself a sentient being. A machine with quantum intellect would make them far more superior to the human race. (of course that level of AI is many many decades away)
The dwave processor is 128 qubits currently, and they've already sold one for 10 million USD. It may very well be possible for their next 256 qubit quantum computer to cost 10 mill and the old 128 qubit model will cost only 8 mill or even 5 mill if they have competition. What do you make of the dwave startup TL? Is mankind about to undergo a change bigger than the steam engine caused?
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that definitely seems pretty cool are there any drawbacks to this compared to your average computer in use now?
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and I just got a raspberry pi lol
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What I wonder is, how do you program one?
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All you need is space for a 10 meter squared room...
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On December 24 2012 14:23 Hug-A-Hydralisk wrote: So basically we're going from integers to natural numbers,
uhhh, no?
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Wow, that's impressive. I had similar thinking in regards to not seeing Quantum Computing for a number of years.
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Housed in a cryogenic chamber, so it's probably very power inefficient at the moment, which is one of the main the limiting factors for compute atm.
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On December 24 2012 14:32 RoK Ot7Er wrote: All you need is space for a 10 meter squared room... Yeah, that monster is huge. Still, withing 10 years will probably be small enough for a home desk.
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pic isn't exactly SFW. awesome news nonetheless
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The question is, will it run SC2 at 60fps?
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Couldn't find a price for the life of me. Only thing that interests me in this thread sadly and it's not available.
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konadora
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but will this pass the Crysis benchmark test?
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That company is taking one MASSIVE gamble.
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Mind blown =\ Never thought this would happen in this decade even.
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On December 24 2012 14:42 konadora wrote: but will this pass the Crysis benchmark test?
No computer will ever pass that.
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On December 24 2012 14:40 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote: Can it run BW? I'm afraid not.
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Out of subject, but I've seen that video the one of the picture in many occasions where is it from and what's the story behind it.? And what are this computers capable of as of now?
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