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I'm a D-Wave employee, and our cloud service [1] is mature and available* today. You can sign up to get a free minute of QPU time (which turns out to be quite

I'm a D-Wave employee, and our cloud service [1] is mature and available* today. You can sign up to get a free minute of QPU time (which turns out to be quite a lot; sampling a problem generally takes milliseconds of QPU time). Additional time is granted if you link your github account to your Leap account, and of course, you can pay for additional time. We've recently added an IDE [2], we've got tutorials [3] and YouTube videos [4] to guide you through the learning process. Additionally, we've recently released a hybrid solver service [5], which supports up to 10k fully-connected variables. * The Leap service is available in 37 countries. We just launched in India and Australia this week. [1] https://www.dwavesys.com/take-leap https://www.dwavesys.com/take-leap [2] https://support.dwavesys.com/hc/en-us/sections/360007452933-About-the-Leap-IDE https://support.dwavesys.com/hc/en-us/sections/360007452933-... [3] https://www.dwavesys.com/resources/tutorials https://www.dwavesys.com/resources/tutorials [4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_etbfDnWMxAuYj9qD1qmA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_etbfDnWMxAuYj9qD1qmA [5] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/14-1039A-A_D-Wave_Hybrid_Solver_Service_An_Overview.pdf https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/14-1039A-A_D-Wa...

Jommi 6y ago
Is the debate about "D-wave isn't quantum computing its quantum annealing" still relevant? I did a research project on the competitive landscape on QC few years ago and at least then it was a huge topic. What are your thoughts?
kanzenryu2 6y ago
What's the most impressive real-world problem ever solved by one of your systems?
- boothby 6y ago
  Personally, I'm most interested in some rather esoteric applications: in a very real sense, our QPU can be thought of as "programmable matter". Specifically, it can be used to simulate various crystalline lattices [1, 2, 3]. Part of my job is figuring out how to best represent those lattices with our systems, so I'm clearly biased. To directly answer your question, I'm most impressed by [3]: materials with a specific structure called the Shastry-Sutherland lattice exhibit a quantized response to an external magnetic field. This is a place where materials clearly demonstrate a quantum effect (itself a demonstration that quantum mechanics are necessary to describe the universe) -- and when we use our computer to simulate it, that effect is clearly visible. I do think of physics experiments as real-world problems, but some of our customers are doing really neat stuff that's much closer to a lay-perspective of what "real-world" means. For example, Groovenauts and Mitsubishi Estate collaborated [4] to optimize the routing of waste-collection trucks. Another one, a collaboration [5] with Menten AI, involving protein design (admittedly, a bit over my head) made use of our hybrid sampling service and they're now doing wet-lab experiments. We've collected [6] quite a few of these applications, and I'm barely familiar with a few of them. [1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum-simulation-topological.html https://phys.org/news/2018-08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum-sim... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01019 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01019 [3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/162 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/162 [4] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Groovenauts_Case_Study_V2.pdf https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Groovenau... [5] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Menten%20AI_Case_Study_V7_1_0.pdf https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Menten%20... [6] https://www.dwavesys.com/applications https://www.dwavesys.com/applications

Jommi 6y ago

Is the debate about "D-wave isn't quantum computing its quantum annealing" still relevant? I did a research project on the competitive landscape on QC few years ago and at least then it was a huge topic. What are your thoughts?

kanzenryu2 6y ago

What's the most impressive real-world problem ever solved by one of your systems?

boothby 6y ago
Personally, I'm most interested in some rather esoteric applications: in a very real sense, our QPU can be thought of as "programmable matter". Specifically, it can be used to simulate various crystalline lattices [1, 2, 3]. Part of my job is figuring out how to best represent those lattices with our systems, so I'm clearly biased. To directly answer your question, I'm most impressed by [3]: materials with a specific structure called the Shastry-Sutherland lattice exhibit a quantized response to an external magnetic field. This is a place where materials clearly demonstrate a quantum effect (itself a demonstration that quantum mechanics are necessary to describe the universe) -- and when we use our computer to simulate it, that effect is clearly visible. I do think of physics experiments as real-world problems, but some of our customers are doing really neat stuff that's much closer to a lay-perspective of what "real-world" means. For example, Groovenauts and Mitsubishi Estate collaborated [4] to optimize the routing of waste-collection trucks. Another one, a collaboration [5] with Menten AI, involving protein design (admittedly, a bit over my head) made use of our hybrid sampling service and they're now doing wet-lab experiments. We've collected [6] quite a few of these applications, and I'm barely familiar with a few of them. [1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum-simulation-topological.html https://phys.org/news/2018-08-d-wave-large-scale-quantum-sim... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01019 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01019 [3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/162 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/162 [4] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Groovenauts_Case_Study_V2.pdf https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Groovenau... [5] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Menten%20AI_Case_Study_V7_1_0.pdf https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Menten%20... [6] https://www.dwavesys.com/applications https://www.dwavesys.com/applications