Google has partnered with NASA to buy one of only two ever made a commercial quantum computer.
These “supercomputers” tasks performed 3,600 times faster than normal computers, and scientists hope to be able to use it to find new drugs, the fight against climate change and better robotics The company will aim to liberate all the powers of the computer that made the Canadian company D-Wave, and now is in the Ames Research Center in California.
D-Wave One was developed with the help of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and bought by a group of Lockheed Martin 2011th Google and NASA are now owners of the D-Wave Two. These computers run a 128-kjubitni processor. "Normal" computers are digital and use the bits to communicated and perform tasks. By comparison, PC located in the average household runs a 32-bit or 64-bit processor. "Being" in modern computers can only be in the active or inactive state - which translates into ones and zeros.
Quantum, on the other hand, function otherwise - can be active, inactive or in some intermediate state. So quantum can be in several places at the same time, which means that tasks are being performed faster and more efficiently. For example, tasks those normal computers working years, quantum computers complete within a few seconds. D-Wave works much like the human brain, but without the "human error".
In August last year, a team of researchers at Harvard University has used this machine to solve the biggest problem of protein folding. Protein folding is a complex system that includes the amino acids in the body of living beings. Google will perhaps use to improve the response and the speed of the car with "autopilot", or further develop Google Glass technology.
In order to test the limits of quantum computers, Google and NASA are open quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. D-Wave Company is currently working on Vesuvius quantum computer to be operated by 512-kjubitni processor.
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