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Re: First "Commercial" Quantum Computer Solves Sudoku Puzzles

__/ [ John Bailo ] on Friday 02 March 2007 23:07 \__

>
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=BD4EFAA8-E7F2-99DF-372B272D3E271363&pageNumber=1&catID=1
> 
> A Canadian firm today unveiled what it called "the world's first
> commercially viable quantum computer." D-Wave Systems, Inc., "The
> Quantum Computing Company," during a much ballyhooed rollout at the
> Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., hailed the new device
> as a big step toward the age of quantum computing, decades earlier than
> scheduled.

This is a big advancement, no doubt. And of course, those who stay
(willingly) behind (think 32-bit x86) will not be able to evolve. Linux
already runs building-sized computers. it's robust, it's stable, it's
scalable. The "PC on every desk" vision is replaced by mobile devices
(perhaps laptops and handhelds first), then SOA, SaaS, and large-scale
processing units. Using dirty tactics, Microsoft was able to catch up with
the Web, destroy Netscape, ruin standards, and stifle further progress on it
(they suppressed the advancement of AJAX-type applications, according to a
confession). But they failed to evolve to make use of high-performance
computing, which Linux inherits from UNIX.

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