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D-Wave Announces 2,000-Qubit System

Canadian-based D-Wave Systems, Inc. has announced its new D-Wave 2000Q. D-Wave is the first commercial vendor to market quantum computing systems. The D-Wave 2000Q is a major upgrade from previous models, doubling the number of qubits from 1,000 to 2,000. According to the company, "With 2,000 qubits and new control features, the new system can solve larger problems than was previously possible, with faster performance, providing a big step toward production applications in optimization, cybersecurity, machine learning, and sampling."

D-Wave also announced their first customer for the 2000Q system, cybersecurity vendor Temporal Defense Systems (TDS). The list price for the 2000Q is $15 million.

D-Wave's systems have aroused controversy in the past. The details of implementing quantum computing in the real world are so arcane that you almost have to be a computer scientist and a quantum physicist to understanding how the system works. Some experts have questioned whether D-Wave systems are actually acting as quantum computers or whether the quantum speedup is significant enough to provide a viable alternative to conventional techniques. Others have expressed support for D-Wave systems and have presented evidence that the systems do indeed operate through quantum entanglement.

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Off the Beat * Bruce Byfield

KDE Comes to a Commercial Laptop

The newly announced KDE Slimbook is not free hardware. All the same, it is an important step in bringing Linux and related technologies to a commercial audience. Recently, I talked with Aleix Pol, the Vice President of KDE e.V, the governing body for the popular desktop environment, about how the project came about.

Adding a Bluetooth Speaker to Linux

These days, support for various technologies under Linux can often be taken for granted. An exception is Bluetooth, whose configuration remains arcane, as I found when trying to add a Bluetooth speaker to my workstation. My efforts were dogged by outdated information, and sometimes lack of information, but the audio improvement added by a high-end speaker made the effort more than worth my time.

Leaders, Rock Stars and Ninjas

In recent weeks, I find myself thinking about Ian Murdock, the founder of Debian and my former employee. Ian, you may remember, died a year ago after being beaten by the police. At the time, I described him as demonstrating "the modesty of a man who has nothing to prove." It's a description that applies to most of the best-known developers in free software.

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Modern Fortran – Part 3 * Jeff Layton

Fortran development is still progressing, with a new version scheduled to release in 2018. In this article, we look at Fortran 2008 and the upcoming Fortran 2015.

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Network Backups with Amanda * Tim Schürmann

The free Amanda backup utility dates back to the days of tape drives, but it is still a powerful tool for centralized backup across the network.

Safeguard and Scale Containers * Thomas Fricke

Security, deployment, and updates for thousands of nodes prove challenging in practice, but with CoreOS and Kubernetes, you can orchestrate container-based web applications in large landscapes.

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