WASHINGTON: Tapping into the ostensibly “magical fount” of quantum mechanics could possibly result to an outpouring of new and ground-breaking advancements in material science.
A team of Google and NASA engineers is at the heart of an incredibly significant finding that may someday lead to precisely that.
Deep within the space agency’s Advanced Supercomputing center in Silicon Valley is a huge black box called D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer. It is a machine acquired by Google and NASA in 2013 which can decipher complex problems that classical computers cannot handle.
“We have already encountered problems we would like to solve that are unfeasible with conventional computers,” said Google Vice President for Engineering John Giannandrea. “We want to understand the future that may lie ahead of us in non-conventional computing.”
