{"id":19424,"date":"2015-11-19T01:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T09:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-a-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:21","slug":"los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-a-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-a-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Los Alamos National Laboratory Orders a 1000+ Qubit D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-a-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D-Wave Systems Inc., the world\u2019s first quantum computing company, announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X\u2122 system. Los Alamos, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, will lead a collaboration within the Department of Energy and with select university partners to explore the capabilities and applications of quantum annealing technology, consistent with the goals of the government-wide National Strategic Computing Initiative. The National Strategic Computing Initiative, created by executive order of President Barack Obama in late July, is intended \u201cto maximize [the] benefits of high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually Moore\u2019s Law (that predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years) will come to an end,\u201d said John Sarrao, associate director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation at Los Alamos. \u201cDennard Scaling (that predicted that performance per watt of computing would grow exponentially at roughly the same rate) already has. Beyond these two observations lies the end of the current \u2018conventional\u2019 computing era, so new technologies and ideas are needed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs conventional computers reach their limits in terms of scaling and performance per watt, we need to investigate new technologies to support our mission,\u201d said Mark Anderson of the Laboratory\u2019s Weapons Physics Directorate. \u201cResearching and evaluating quantum annealing as the basis for new approaches to address intractable problems is an essential and powerful step, and will enable a new generation of forward thinkers to influence its evolution in a direction most beneficial to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2015\/11\/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Wave Systems Inc., the world\u2019s first quantum computing company, announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X\u2122 system. Los Alamos, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, will lead a collaboration within the Department of Energy and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69174,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions\/69174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}