Harvard Researchers Use Quantum Computer to Fold Proteins

"ya da, ya da ... presented results of the largest protein folding problem solved to date using a quantum computer..." but such if computers have minute processor power, the "largest" would also be small right? Sounds like an epsilon-delta proof somehow...

Grr... Wake me up when quantum computers have processing of conventional CPUs: "our pseudo-miraculo-tron has been used in simulations which fold proteins, split atoms and fly rockets to the moon, approaching nearly the processing power of the seventies scientific calculators which once were used in such efforts..."

Re: Harvard Researchers Use Quantum Computer to Fold Proteins

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Post by autotravis » Wed, Aug 15, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

joe_the_user wrote: post #4

"SOURCE D-Wave Systems Inc." "ya da, ya da ... presented results of the largest protein folding problem solved to date using a quantum computer..." but such if computers have minute processor power, the "largest" would also be small right? Sounds like an epsilon-delta proof somehow... Grr... Wake me up when quantum computers have processing of conventional CPUs: "our pseudo-miraculo-tron has been used in simulations…

Exactly. They didn't seem to mention its performance... If this problem has been tackled by traditional CPUs (like we do with F@H), then how did the quantum computer compare?