Researchers Announce Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough

[Brink]

As far as quantum computing breakthroughs go, this latest one by a team of researchers from the U.S., Australia and South Africa is truly special. According to the researchers, a tiny crystal comprising only 300 atoms developed by them has paved the way for a “huge leap” in computing. A leap so vast, these researchers claim, that it would take a supercomputer larger than the known universe to do the kind of calculations possible with their “quantum simulator,” a special type of quantum computer.

Read more at:
Maximum PC | Researchers Announce Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough

 

[FuturDreamz]

I'll believe it when I can buy it or I end up using it indirectly.

 

[mjf]

I am always impressed by this stuff. But I have a feeling that economic rationalism has killed off a lot of pure scientific research which could zoom ahead with these computational capabilities. I want the fusion power plant!

 

[Coke Robot]

Ok, sign me up on that waiting list!

 

[BugMeister]

- sheesh!

not another one..!!?

 

[Dave76]

The universe size to 1 X 300 atoms, now that's a die shrink.

 

[msdos622wasfun]

The more I read about stuff like this, the more I think there must be some kind of ceiling as to how much computing can actually be done. I mean, all the atoms in the universe? What next then? A computer so powerful it causes rips in the fabric of space-time?

 

[alphanumeric]

I heard that DR Gordon Freeman is going to oversee the project.

 

[Everlong]

Quantum computers are not even close to what we consider a computer. They only do a couple of things really well, like factoring large numbers and some traveling salesmen routing problems. THAT'S IT. Nothing else.
The truly eerie thing is that these calculations are done simultaneously through the multiverse. Each calculation is done in another instance of our universe but the results show up at the end here at OUR instance. Since there is an infinite number of instances of our universe in the multiverse, an infinite number of calculations can be done instantly if we have enough quantum bits to use.

Freaky.

 

[msdos622wasfun]

I heard that DR Gordon Freeman is going to oversee the project.

:roflmao:

 

[seekermeister]

I would imagine that the cost of this is going to be higher than the average computer user can afford. However, I bet the government and R.I.A.A., etc. will grab them up so that they can monitor everyone else's computer easier.

 

[Layback Bear]

How does one know how many atoms are in the universe when one doesn't know how big the universe is?

 

[seekermeister]

Don't be such a skeptic. Don't you know that science knows everything, and that scientists are the priests, preachers and teachers of all things? What ever they don't know is simply because they haven't had time to fabricate a theory yet.