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- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -17/+89I've heard they used it to setup a cold fusion reactor that powers their time travel device. Oh, and it's also used in the Phantom console that will launch along side Duke Nukem Forever late this year.
Vaporware - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+62They have computers in Canada?
- fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+47They usually can overclock their processors much more than we can because of their igloos homes.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37"I agree. I'll digg this when they actually show it"
Very well.
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digg that bitch up :) - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37@rebrad
The real question is; have they made any good FPS games for it?
Hmm, I don't know how they could. It literally stops working when you look at it. - signal15, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Don't forget the russian company that claimed to have the fastest supercomputer in the world that fit in a normal desktop case and would still operate with a bullet hole through it. Or the chinese memory manufacturer that was going to demo a 2 terabit non-volatile storage device the size of a PCMCIA card and had 300MB/sec of throughput.
In any case, I don't think we're 20 years away from quantum computing. It's well within the realm of possibility that something could come out tomorrow. Remember, it's thought that the NSA is 20 years ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to tech, and they might already have something. A common reason cited for this is back in 1972 when IBM was trying to get Lucifer certified as the DES standard, the NSA came to them and *required* some changes in how the S boxes operated before they would certify it. A conspiracy theory existed for many years as people insisted that the NSA made those changes in order to crack it easier. It turns out, a new field of cryptography was discovered in 1992 called differential cryptography, and Lucifer in its original incarnation would have been fully vulnerable to it. So, the NSA required those changes because they knew of differential crypto 20 years before the public actually knew about it.
Additionally, many of the crypto export restrictions have been relaxed in the past few years, which would indicate that the NSA now has the means to break certain algorithms (or all algorithms if they do have a working quantum computer). If this company truly does have a working quantum computer, we can consider ALL current crypto algorithms insecure. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Canada rocks.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23OMG here comes Skynet
- athosghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22silly, everyone KNOWS that Skynet is software not hardware, it runs on all the college kids computers
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Nothing.
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Quantum computer is vaporware
Quantum computer is not vaporware.
Schroedinger's head asplode. - antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Radio, Telephone, the Lightbulb
and more. - antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Another great Canadian innovation. I cant wait for the Americans to steal it from us.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22This place is filled with morons. Did that guy just refer to Canada as "canadia" ? Unbelievable.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20We're actually running said quantum computer out of a Birch Bark canoe!!
- rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23The real question is; have they made any good FPS games for it?
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16That could be a selling point. It gives you a real excuse to avoid human contact....
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14For the people calling *****: I at least give them credit for announcing an actual DEMONSTRATION DATE that occurs sometime within the next century, i.e. a week or so away. Compare this to the umpteens of press releases that have made the front page with no demonstration or release date in sight. People can make a reasonable declaration of ***** or not by the end of next week. How many other stories like this can that be said about?
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16To refer to my previous post,
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There's this website, www.google.com, it finds things :) - jacotyco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16a 'quantum' leap is incredibly small, for those who don't know
- eboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15if true, it would utilize the atoms of other universes...time travel, quantum wormholes and all that jazz...and maybe even a star trek pc game that doesnt blow.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Canadians have invented plenty.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was Canadian.
Insulin, an essential chemical to diabetics, is a Canadian invention.
The snowmobile was developed by Bombardier, in Montreal, Canada.
Need I go on?
Edit: Beaten by antifreeze11 - pagit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It runs Microsoft
Where the "Blue Screen of Death" now becomes the "Black Hole of Death and Universal Singularity" and alt/ctrl/del takes on a whole new dimension - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20I agree. I'll digg this when they actually show it
- threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@ natmaster
"Quantum computing is NOT for deterministic systems - these won't be replacing your PC. Quantum computers are for highly parellel non-deterministic computations that are computationally intractable for standard deterministic Turing Machines."
Wow, that's a lot of big words for someone who can't spell parallel. - SaintFatMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Because it really matters what country the inventors are from. Why do countries feel the need to take credit for the success of individuals?
- FBMGriever, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13ooo I'm as giddy as a young school girl! *hops up and down while clapping*
I'll believe it when I see it. - javip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11You die
- smujeremy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1042
- plugues, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16if I'm not mistaken, ATi is canadian
- kiloWatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Are you retarded? A star trek pc game that doesnt blow. We'll have time travel before that!
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, you have something on your cheek, you might wanna clean that off.
- nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Quantum computers? Wake me up when quantum torpedos are out.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@HisEliteness:
Sexually repressed much? - adharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They are about to take a Quantum Leap. You can only leap to times in your own lifetime, never in the future.
- mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10thats interesting.. i also have a computer that is capable of doing things most people couldnt dream of... its the fastest, and most awesome computer ever.. but im not giving you any specs or photos.. ur just gonna have to trust me..
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"How exactly are they going to demonstrate this computer when it stops working when you look at it?"
I think the first step would be making sure the computer isn't hooked up to an ATX-sized case with a chipset that's been spraypainted over :)
Seriously, though, they claim to have "two commercial applications" running. My hope would be they could load in software to solve NP (difficult/long cpu-time consuming) problems and, without any assistance via network, outside computers, etc, solve a problem that takes hours on a regular PC and compare it to the time this takes. If it takes minutes instead of hours, and we crack open the case and don't see 9 processors sitting on a motherboard, we've at least shown that this company is on to something, although not necessarily quantum computation.
The short answer is I don't have the technical knowledge to know how to go about proving that the thing in a shiny case is a quantum computer. But I would know how to benchmark a much faster computer against a slower one for non-trivial problems. - ninepound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6MultiVac, can entropy be reversed?
Man, does this really remind me of that futuristic story a while back. - ijacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6>>"Sounds like you'd have to have an entire isolation chamber just to use your shiny new quantum laptop..."
thats the problem, not to mention all those pesky neutrinos. - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is a 16-qubit processor BTW if anyone cares the slightest bit. They claim 1000-qubit by 2009, I have reason to believe them. And BTW, you cannot parallelize quantum computers... well you can, but it doesn't scale well.
A 1000-qubit processor is roughly 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times faster than a 16-qubit processor in relation to classical computers, if I have my calculations intact, whereas a parallelized quantum computer with 62 16-qubit processors for a total of around 1000 qubits would only be around 62 times faster. So it's ridiculously inefficient to parallelize compared to entangling more... if you can do it. - Quake120, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That would be called time-travel, and no, there isn't... Unless this "quantum computer" can figure out how to travel into the future. I'd pay hefty sums for a laptop that would let me time travel and would also run fast. ...
But I suppose if I could time travel, if I didn't want to wait until something was done loading, I could just jump to the point in time where it is done. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm
Good story (and slightly on topic to this story!) - natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Quantum computing is NOT for deterministic systems - these won't be replacing your PC. Quantum computers are for highly parellel non-deterministic computations that are computationally intractable for standard deterministic Turing Machines.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@Xedlos -
It's when you start playing with the time continuum, things go a little caca, and you embark on a strange journey, putting right what once went wrong.... or something like that. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dude, are you high?
- buzneg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and other counties produced that country, and one celled organizums created everything, so they're the real gods of the universe
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Plus what are they going to show to demonstrate its computing power. Running a calculation and outputting the results quickly? That doesn't take a quantum computer, that just takes a clever script to spew pre-calculated data to the display."
I didn't address that question. Let's take the NP-complete problem for finding the clique in a graph. You can look it up if you want, or you can have faith in me that this is a graphing problem that takes much more time to solve as the size of the graph increases. Without knowing or caring what the problem is, you could roll physical dice in front of the scientists to generate a graph at random:
1) Roll a 100-sided die, land on a 73, generate a graph with 73 vertices.
2) For vertex number one, roll a 20 sided die to determine the number of edges it has. Say you land a 12.
3) Roll the 100 sided die 12 times to see which vertices this vertex connects to.
Repeat 2) and 3) for each vertex in the graph.
The point being that hopefully you get a graph of a size large enough or find a problem difficult enough to be difficult for a regular Pentium X to solve but much faster for this computer. If you've generated a program/script that somehow solves this quickly anyway, then people would pay millions for the software. - gingerchris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4is it gonna be called Ziggy?
- countmandible, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4Quantum computing makes me want to go back to school.
I don't know how practical this demonstration will be, since many experts agree this technology is 20 years away from being feasible. , but I have high hopes! - Pata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Here are some more inventions:
- Zipper
- Electron Microscope
- Pacemaker
- Standard Time
- Java Programming Language -
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