Quantum computing, that great white hope for the super-fast computers of the future, appears come of age-- Lockheed Martin becomes the first company to upgrade its test quantum computer to commercial scale.
The machine in question comes from D-Wave Systems, from whom Lockheed bought an early quantum computer 2 years ago. The military contractor will use the quantum computer to create and test radar, space and aircraft systems, and claims the system can instantly carry out previously impossible such as telling how the millions of lines of code running a satellite network react to a solar burst or a nuclear explosion pulse.
“This is a revolution not unlike the early days of computing,” Lockheed CTO Ray Johnson tells The New York Times. “It is a transformation in the way computers are thought about.” Read more...