Let's keep in mind that the D-Wave machine is not a general purpose quantum computer. It only runs the quantum annealing, which is an aptimization algorithm, on

Let's keep in mind that the D-Wave machine is not a general purpose quantum computer. It only runs the quantum annealing, which is an aptimization algorithm, on its quantum register. This is the only thing the machine is able to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing