Honeywell Announces its H1 Quantum Computer with 10 Qubits (techcrunch.com) 14
New submitter B1948J writes: It's interesting that Honeywell is once again emerging as a computing hardware vendor. Over 50 years ago, Honeywell established itself as one of the big 3 computer mainframe manufacturers (Honeywell, Burroughs and IBM). Some say the Honeywell-200 introduced "channel architecture" before IBM "announced" it for their 360 series computers. Now, Honeywell is announcing its H1 Quantum Computer
capable of a Quantum Value of 128 through 10 fully connected qubits.
fyi... (Score:4, Interesting)
Honeywell has been in the computer systems business for the past several decades, they just have selective clientele
for example, Honeywell maintained all Multics systems until they were finally retired in the 90's and likely any follow on 'highly secure' systems
You can expect all news regarding these quantum systems to disappear as they are purchased by tla agencies
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They had a good computing niche. I know a guy who, in the mid-80's took a train out to Arizona to see about getting AppleTalk running on a decent computer. He brought the Apple and Honeywell manuals with him and wrote a stack in assembly on the way out, in his notebook. Keyed it in in Arizona, it worked*, they bought the computer and shipped it back to New Hampshire.
They needed a fileserver for about ten thousand users. Academia used to invent computing, not just make do with whatever junk was available
Its all very well announcing it (Score:1)
But lets see the peer reviewed paper that actually shows it is doing quantum computation and is faster than a classic machine.
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And the peer reviews are where exactly?
Thunk (Score:4, Funny)
The sound of the gauntlet that has just been thrown down in front of Nest. Honeywell can now satisfy the heating and cooling requirements of both you and your significant other... simultaneously.
Temperature (Score:3)
Lets hope they can find someone who can deliver a thermostat to them that can keep that quantum computer at the right temperature.
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Lol I was just looking at programmable thermostats earlier. Going to go with one from Lux because you can set the hysteresis. Definitely not one of those wifi internet of shit models either. Although the displays sure are nice.
If you're nerdy enough for a really smart thermos (Score:2)
I had trouble finding a thermostat that met my needs last year.
I knew *exactly* what I wanted the thermostat to do, when I wanted it to turn on each state of heating and cooling, etc. I couldn't find one that could handle all of the stages of my heat pump system.
The row of connectors on the back of the thermostat sure did remind me if the IO terminals on a Raspberry Pi and I was wishing I could find an attractive small case+touchscreen at a reasonable price, but didn't find what I was looking for.
Just recen
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BUNCH (Score:3)
Actually, there were six big mainframe computer manufacturers back then: IBM and the BUNCH: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data and Honeywell.
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No. Most hashing algorithms, including sha256 are considered quantum secure.
Quantum computing is only really a theoretical threat to some public key encryption schemes.
OVERKILL (Score:2)