Wednesday, February 14, 2007
A paradigm shift in computing is coming...
... to solve your Sudoku. A Canadian company called D-Wave is trialling a 16-bit quantum computer. The idea is to then build larger and larger scale models and gradually increase processing power with each generation.
In other news, I am still in Chester working 4 days out of 5 from the client's site. It's lovely today, the sun being out and warming the tarmac on the parking lot. An hour ago I nipped back to my flat for a quick lunch of soy-chilli porkloin and stir fried vegetables. Mmm. Back at work now, resurrecting the dead.
"The quantum computer was given three problems to solve: searching for molecular structures that match a target molecule, creating a complicated seating plan, and filling in Sudoku puzzles."Of course the people who are getting the hardest hard-ons from this development are government spooks and defense tech types, who want the added processing power from quantum computing to be able to break military-strength cryptography. Sadly for them (but not for puzzle fans) is that the type of quantum computing used in D-Wave's model is unsuitable for this sort of work.
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In other news, I am still in Chester working 4 days out of 5 from the client's site. It's lovely today, the sun being out and warming the tarmac on the parking lot. An hour ago I nipped back to my flat for a quick lunch of soy-chilli porkloin and stir fried vegetables. Mmm. Back at work now, resurrecting the dead.
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