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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

D-Wave chip passes rigorous tests:

With cutting-edge technology, sometimes the first step scientists face is just making sure it actually works as intended. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is home to the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC), a super-cooled, magnetically shielded facility specially built to house the first commercially available quantum computing processors — devices so advanced that there are only two in use outside the Canadian lab where they were built: The first one went to USC and Lockheed Martin, and the second to NASA and Google.
Since USC's facility opened in October 2011, a key task for researchers has been to determine whether D-Wave processors operate as hoped — using the special laws of quantum mechanics to offer potentially higher-speed processing, instead of operating in a classical, traditional way.
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-d-wave-chip-rigorous. html [phys.org]

Quantum computing uses strange subatomic behavior to exponentially speed up processing. It could be a revolution, or it could be wishful thinking
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91 71,2164806,00.html [time.com]

http://viterbi.usc.edu/ [usc.edu]

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