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Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 20, 2014 @01:48AM from the it's-better-we-promise dept.

Alain Williams writes "The BBC reports that a new academic study has raised doubts about the performance of a commercial quantum computer in certain circumstances. In some tests devised by a team of researchers, the commercial quantum computer has performed no faster than a standard desktop machine. 'The study has been submitted to a journal, but has not yet completed the peer review process to verify the findings. And D-Wave told BBC News the tests set by the scientists were not the kinds of problems where quantum computers offered any advantage over classical types.'"

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do not know if you measure it by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-20 01:53 · Score: 3, Funny

it may be faster , slower or both
Re:Of course... by gstoddart · 2014-01-20 02:26 · Score: 4, Funny

But it's a quantum computer; it's both faster and slower at the same time!
Maybe it's quantum marketing, and is therefore both true and false at the same time.
Which would make it indistinguishable from all other marketing.

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Re:But it's QUANTUM! by Chrisq · 2014-01-20 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

But it's QUANTUM!
So's my dishwasher powder.
Re:But it's QUANTUM! by CapOblivious2010 · 2014-01-20 11:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Just like digital improves the quality of everything.
Except music, if you're an audiophile who prefers vinyl.

I don't care one way or the other about the audio, but I'm a true hipster videophile, and I insist on watching everything on VHS. It's hard to describe, but VHS gives a warmer, softer, smoother picture without all those annoying dots distracting you from the filmmaker's true vision.