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Back from the dead with an update, hehe.

 

Canadian firm D-Wave Systems unveiled and demonstrated today what it calls “the world's first commercially viable quantum computer.” Company officials announced the technology at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in a demonstration intended to show how the machine can run commercial applications and is better suited to the types of problems that have stymied conventional (digital) computers.

 

The demonstration of the technology was held at the Computer History Museum, but the actual hardware remained in Burnaby, BC where it was being chilled down to 5 millikelvin, or minus 273.145 degrees Celsius (colder than interstellar space), with liquid helium.

 

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6102

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I wonder what overclocks I could get with a cooler like that...

 

At that temperature there might be elements in a typical processor that would normally be insulating but would become superconducting. So maybe it'd be much, much too cold. :)

 

The only question I have is whether or not the cat is dead.

 

Or is it dead but outside of the box?

 

Or is only part of it in the box?

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