The NSA is a data center to house a 512 qubit quantum computer capable of learning, reproducing the brain\u2019s cognitive functions, and programming itself.<\/h3>\n
The National Security Center is building a highly fortified $2 Billion highly top secret complex simply named the \u201cUtah Data Center\u201d which will soon be home to the Hydrogen bomb of cybersecurity<\/strong> \u2013 A 512 Qubit Quantum Computer \u2014 which will revitalize the the \u201ctotal information awareness\u201d program originally envisioned by George Bush in 2003.<\/p>\n The news of the data center comes after Department of Defense contractor Lockheed Martin secured a contract with D-Wave for $10 million for a 512 qubit Quantum Computer code-named Vesuvius.<\/p>\n Vesuvius is capable of executing a massive number of computations at once, more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is would take millions of years on a standard desktop.<\/p>\n The computer will be able to crack even the most secure encryption and will give the US government a quantum leap into technologies once only dreamed of including the rise of the world\u2019s very first all-knowing omniscient self-teaching artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n The D-Wave Quantum computer boasts of a wide array of features including:<\/p>\n Via Wired:<\/p>\n The quantum computer is the holy grail of tech research. The idea is to build a machine that uses the mind-bending properties of very small particles to perform calculations that are well beyond the capabilities of machines here in the world of classical physics. But it\u2019s still not completely clear that a true quantum computer can actually be built.<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n But Rose keeps fighting. In May, D-Wave published a paper<\/a> in the influential journal Nature<\/em> that backed up at least some of its claims. And more importantly, it landed a customer. That same month, mega defense contractor Lockheed Martin bought a D-Wave quantum computer and a support contract for $10 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n The critics have been so vociferous in large part because Rose isn\u2019t shy about promoting his company. But that\u2019s just the way he is. Rose likens D-Wave\u2019s quantum computers to the Large Hadron Collider, the world\u2019s biggest particle accelerator. \u201cThey\u2019re the largest programmable quantum systems that have ever been built by a long shot,\u201d he says. And his latest pitch is that D-Wave is on verge of unveiling the world\u2019s first quantum cloud. That\u2019s right, quantum-computing-as-a-service.<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n D-Wave\u2019s computer is designed to solve what are called combinatorial optimization problems. The classic example is figuring out the most efficient route for a traveling salesman going to multiple destinations. There\u2019s no mathematical shortcut that computers can take to solve combinatorial optimization problems. They have to use brute force: Simply check all possible combinations. The trouble is, the number of possibilities explodes exponentially with the problem size. For example, if you have six destinations, there are 64 possible combinations. If you have 20 destinations, there are 1,048,576 possible combinations.<\/p>\n D-Wave\u2019s next-generation computer is designed to handle problems with as many as 512 variables. In theory, that lets you solve problems involving two to the 512 possible combinations, and a problem of that size is beyond the reach of any classical computer that could ever be built. \u201cIt\u2019s bigger than the number of atoms in the universe,\u201d Rose says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter how big a supercomputer you make.\u201d<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n He then convinced Lockheed Martin\u2019s management to buy a D-Wave computer and install it in a lab at USC\u2019s Information Sciences Institute<\/a>. Lockheed Martin and USC split time on the machine, and Lockheed Martin\u2019s access is via a secure network. The machine came online at noon on December 23, and the company now has 50 people working on it.<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n Source: Wired<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Via Explaining Quantum Computers<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/a> OK, so quantum computing may sound all very theoretical (and indeed at present a lot of it actually is!). However, practical quantum computing research is now very much under way. Perhaps most notably, back in 2007 a Canadian company called D-Wave<\/a> announced what it described as \u201cthe world\u2019s first commercially viable quantum computer\u201d. This was based on a 16 qubit processor \u2014 the Rainer R4.7 \u2014 made from the rare metal niobium supercooled into a superconducting state. Back in 2007, D-Wave<\/a> demonstrated their quantum computer performing several tasks including playing Sudoku and creating a complex seating plan.<\/p>\n Many people at the time were somewhat sceptical of D-Wave\u2019s claims. However, in December 2009, Google revealed that it had been working with D-Wave<\/a> to develop quantum computing algorithms for image recognition purposes. Experiments had included using a D-Wave<\/a> quantum computer to recognise cars in photographs faster than possible using any conventional computer in a Google data centre. Around this time, there was also an announcement from IBM<\/a> that it was rededicating resources to quantum computing research in the \u201chope that a five-year push [would] produce tangible and profound improvements\u201d.<\/p>\n In 2011, D-Wave<\/a> launched a fully-commercial, 128-qubit quantum computer. Called the D-Wave One, this is described by the company as a \u201chigh performance computing system designed for industrial problems encountered by fortune 500 companies, government and academia\u201d. The D-Wave One\u2018s super-cooled 128 qubit processor is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room. Just look at the picture here and you will see the sheer size of the thing relative to a human being. At launch, the D-Wave One cost $10 million. The first D-Wave One was sold to US aerospace, security and military giant Lockheed Martin in May 2011.<\/p>\n D-Wave<\/a> aside, other research teams are also making startling quantum computing advances. For example, in September 2010, the Centre for Quantum Photonics<\/a> in Bristol in the United Kingdom reported that it had created a new photonic quantum chip<\/a>. This is able to operate at normal temperatures and pressures, rather than under the extreme conditions required by the D-Wave One and most other quantum computing hardware. According to the guy in charge \u2014 Jeremy O\u2019Brien \u2014 his team\u2019s new chip may be used as the basis of a quantum computer capable of outperforming a conventional computer \u201cwithin five years\u201d.<\/p>\n Another significant quantum computing milestone was reported in January 2011 by a team from Oxford University. Here strong magnetic fields and low temperatures were used to link \u2014 or \u201cquantumly entangle\u201d \u2014 the electrons and nuclei of a great many phosphorous atoms inside a highly purified silicon crystal. Each entangled electron and nucleus was then able to function as a qubit. Most startlingly, ten billion quantumly entangled qubits were created simultaneously. If a way an be found to link these together, the foundation will have been laid for an incredibly powerful computing machine. In comparison to the 128 qubit D-Wave One, a future computer with even a fraction of a 10 billion qubit capacity could clearly possess a quite literally incomprehensible level of processing power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
D-Wave\u2019s 512-qubit chip, code-named Vesuvius<\/h2>\n
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D-Wave Defies World of Critics With \u2018First Quantum Cloud\u2019<\/h1>\n
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Details About The NSA Quantum Computer Spy Center<\/h2>\n