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The paper mentioned they talked with folks doing special purpose FPGA's, and that those teams seem to disagree with your assessment ;-) (at least, that's my re

• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  The one thing that appears to contradict my claim is a 10^8 speedup. That's a ridiculously huge speed-up that even custom hardware won't achieve. I'm not sure if it's an error or not, though. If it was right, then they either have a groundbreaking algorithm with acceleration or a quantum annealing machine.
  • eveningcoffee 11y ago
    They say: Based on the results presented here, one cannot claim a quantum speedup for D-Wave 2X, as this would require that the quantum processor in question outperforms the best known classical algorithm. This is not the case for the weak-strong cluster networks. This is because a va- riety of heuristic classical algorithms can solve most in- stances of Chimera structured problems much faster than SA, QMC, and the D-Wave 2X. But that in my opinion does not mean that it is not a quantum annealing computer, just that it does not bring the speed-up we are looking for.
    • nickpsecurity 11y ago
      That stood out for me too. It might mean something or might not. D-Wave just acts dodgier than most companies so Im a bit more skeptical.