A Quantum Computing Lab Tour at D-Wave
summary
D-Wave offers free cloud access including an unlimited COVID‑19 login and a hybrid platform Leap 2 that claims to solve problems ~100× larger by combining quantum and classical cloud resources; the lab runs a 2000-qubit processor cooled to ~0.01 K in a dilution fridge, with chips consuming ~1e‑10 W while the rack draws ~25 kW. Published results cite ~100× and later ~3,000,000× speedups on specific benchmarks; open source Ocean SDK, NetworkX extensions, an IDE and a problem inspector map real graphs (min‑vertex‑cover, routing) to qubits and return solutions.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:56Quantum Computing Research
- 3:17Leap Cloud Services
- 3:40Leap 2 Launch
- 4:52Shors Algorithm
- 5:57What is Quantum Computing
- 13:13Open Source Examples
- 13:39Physical Networks
- 14:55Applications
- 15:18Production Applications
- 16:04DWave Facilities
- 18:20Application Server
- 22:55Peak Power
- 23:31First Quantum Computer
- 24:12Superconductivity
- 25:16Quantum Processor
- 28:04Scanning Electron Microscope
- 28:55CAD Files
- 30:47Quantum Applications
- 31:35DWave Leap
- 31:55Sign Up Page
- 32:25Dashboard
- 32:59Resources
- 33:18Ocean Stack
- 33:44Ocean SDK
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