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IDC High Performance Computing Conference validates Quantum Computing as entering the mainstream

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Yesterday the first time the IDC HPC user forum has had a session on quantum computing. There an entire session on quantum computing and the keynote speaker at the event was Charlie Bennett, an IBM Fellow who is well-known to quantum information folks, as (among other things) he co-invented quantum cryptography.

* Geordie Rose (CTO of DWAve Systems) presented their 512 qubit adiabatic quantum annealing computer
* Hartmut Neven from Google talked about their D-Wave machine and their commercial application
* Dave Wecker from Microsoft gave an overview of his group’s work on building software for programming, compiling and visualizing quantum circuits.
* Jay Gambetta from IBM Yorkton Heights gave a talk about the IBM work on transmon qubits.


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