[Martinus]

Hmmm, nifty and with all the work going on in clockless processors I don't see a bottleneck in computing speed coming anytime soon  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by WarpStar:
Yea, all those laws of EM-Physics, The QC works on an entirely different level, though, eliminating conventional transistors completely.  That would be insanely faster.

yeah, but it's also scie fi crap.

[WarpStar]

Not really, they've actually done some stuff like this at the University of California I think, but it's only 2-bit as of last I've heard.

[Martinus]

 

Originally posted by WarpStar:
Not really, they've actually done some stuff like this at the University of California I think, but it's only 2-bit as of last I've heard.

Not a good idea to just post about "something you've heard". Find a link to a good source instead. This kind of stuff should be pretty interesting.

[WarpStar]

Hehehehe, ifn' only I could post a link to a magazine article    A 3 year old one at that.

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Maeglamor:
Not a good idea to just post about "something you've heard". Find a link to a good source instead. This kind of stuff should be pretty interesting.

Ok, I did a Google search for "quantum computer reality" and came up with this as the first result. The web site is slow, so if you have trouble connecting just go here for Google's cache of the page.

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[mikhael]

 

From Venom:
yeah, but it's also scie fi crap.

and
 

From Maeglamor:
Not a good idea to just post about "something you've heard". Find a link to a good source instead. This kind of stuff should be pretty interesting.

Sci-fi? I think not.

Shor's Algorithm is a method by which a quantum computer could, theoretically, factor arbitrarily large numbers. To factor the number 15, you need a 7 qubit quantum compter.

And as of the 19th of December, 2001, IBM reported that they had used Shor's Algorithm to do exactly that. And it only took a vial of 10^18 molecules.

A quick Google search finds lots of information about QC. Also, occasionally read Slashdot.org or ArsTechnica.com. Both of them usually list links to these sorts of stories early and often.
 http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

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[Sandwich]

Here's an excerpt (that's all they show for free, the greedy BEEEEP   ) of a New York Times article dated Nov. 28th, 2001:

 

Scientists Build Tiny Computer Using DNA Molecules

Israeli scientists say they have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them can fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy.

While such a computer has been theoretically possible for some time, the scientists, writing in last week's issue of the journal Nature, said this was the first programmable autonomous computing machine in which the input, output, software and hardware were all made of DNA molecules.

I'll try to find more extensive info about this.

EDIT: Okay, that wasn't all that hard.   Here's some more links, to full articles this time.  
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1668000/1668415.stm  http://in.news.yahoo.com/011121/107/199x5.html  http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/661523.asp

 

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[Alikchi]

Whoa.