[HN Gopher] D-Wave Launches in AWS Marketplace
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D-Wave Launches in AWS Marketplace
Author : donutloop
Score : 66 points
Date : 2022-10-30 11:13 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| civilized wrote:
| Seems like they're shrugging off the question of whether quantum
| computing has any advantages over classical, and going straight
| to "use it or you're missing out".
|
| As far as I know, there's still no convincing evidence that
| today's quantum computers do _anything_ better than classical
| computers. For example, Google made a very narrow claim of
| quantum superiority and even this was undermined by subsequent
| research [1].
|
| [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/googles-quantum-
| supremacy-...
| s1dev wrote:
| It is worth noting that all known classical algorithms to solve
| this problem scale exponentially with the problem size, and
| fundamentally there is no reason why putting 60 or 70 qubits in
| the fridge is particularly more difficult than 53. The point is
| that while classical algorithm advances can take off orders of
| magnitude off the runtime, this has to be done _every_ time
| there is a small increase in the size of the quantum computing
| device in order to kill a supremacy claim.
|
| (To clarify, I personally think optimization is not a remotely
| near-term application)
| williamscales wrote:
| Furthermore, I believe there's some question as to whether the
| kind of computer that DWave has made is even a true quantum
| computer.
| [deleted]
| Kalanos wrote:
| Is this different than what has been available through Braket?
| https://aws.amazon.com/braket/quantum-computers/dwave/
| barbazoo wrote:
| > Leap will be available in AWS Marketplace soon, and Amazon
| Braket customers will be directed to the AWS Marketplace to
| access the D-Wave system.
| ramesh31 wrote:
| So is quantum computing a real thing?
| peterth3 wrote:
| D-Wave is not a universal quantum computer. It's a quantum
| annealer [0].
|
| [0] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-D-Waves-quantum-computer-not-
| co...
| klyrs wrote:
| Of course it is! But, can it catch up to the 60-year head start
| that classical computing enjoys? That remains to be seen.
| powera wrote:
| There is no known reason why it is theoretically impossible.
|
| However, despite many people claiming otherwise, there are
| currently no situations (other than contrived benchmarks) where
| a quantum computer is better than a digital computer.
| theGnuMe wrote:
| What can I do with it?
| marricks wrote:
| Isn't it, anything but slower and more costly than anything you
| could do with a convention computer?
|
| Oh wait, it's just a very small subset of problems, nvm.
| Y_Y wrote:
| A fine question!
|
| > Our solvers include the binary quadratic model solver, the
| discrete quadratic model solver, and the constrained quadratic
| model solver.
|
| Apparently this include graph colouring and travelling salesman
| problems, as well as things expressible in
| https://github.com/MQLib/MQLib .
| throwntoday wrote:
| What was the time complexity of the solution to salesman
| problem?
|
| Or are quantum algorithms not measured in the same way?
| conformist wrote:
| The problem is np hard and d-wave runs quantum annealers,
| so the ultimate benchmark is likely wall time.
| binarymax wrote:
| How far off is the tech to be able to run Shor's algorithm?
| xyzzyz wrote:
| It is not general purpose quantum computer, so it will not
| run Shor algorithm.
| Q6T46nT668w6i3m wrote:
| Constrained optimization
| pkrumins wrote:
| You can find the prime factors of the number 15.
| remram wrote:
| Are there a lot of entries in the AWS marketplace that you can't
| run on AWS, but instead access remotely? I thought it was mostly
| things like AMIs (Windows, etc) or managed services you run on
| top of EC2 VMs (databases systems, etc). But this is actually
| hardware operated by a third party...
| electroly wrote:
| I'm not sure how this deal works behind the scenes, but AWS
| already rented access to D-Wave devices previously via AWS
| Braket. I wonder if they're continuing to operate the hardware
| for this. I agree it would be an odd choice to put this in the
| AWS Marketplace if they're not.
| cavisne wrote:
| The actual quantum computers don't live inside AWS
| datacenters
|
| https://aws.amazon.com/braket/faqs/ (under security)
|
| Most of AWS Braqet is orchestrating emulators (ie fake
| quantum computers running on EC2).
| everfrustrated wrote:
| Various SaaS vendors are available via the AWS marketplace,
| including ones that aren't running on AWS.
|
| For example we pay for Datadog (using their EU region which
| happens to be on GCP) via our AWS bill. As we have 30 day
| invoicing with AWS this makes it all very convenient.
| raziel2701 wrote:
| At this point in time there's no one that has enough logical
| qubits to do a useful quantum computation. It might be a few
| decades before someone figures out how to scale up the number of
| useful qubits. In the meantime a bunch of QC start ups will pop
| in and out of existence like particles. Very tough field, but
| that's exactly where I want to see more resources allocated:
| towards solving difficult problems.
| mrfox321 wrote:
| Your comment is off topic.
|
| D wave is not a quantum computer. It is a specialized hardware
| for solving certain classes of optimization problems using
| quantum annealing.
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