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Recent News in Abundant Computing
Two recent developments in the world of abundant computing - Orion, which claims to be the world's first practical quantum computer was unveiled:
As California is to the United States, so British Columbia is to Canada. Both are about as far south-west as you can go on their respective mainlands. Both have high-tech aspirations. And, although the Fraser Valley does not yet have quite the cachet of Silicon Valley, it may be about to steal a march on its southern neighbour. For, on February 13th, D-Wave Systems, a firm based in Burnaby, near Vancouver, announced the existence of the world's first practical quantum computer. (The Economist)
And Intel demonstrated an 80-core CPU that may herald a future of personal super-computing:
"Last week, Intel announced a research project that made geeks jump with glee: the first programmable "terascale" supercomputer on a chip. The company demonstrated a single chip with 80 cores, or processors, and showed that these cores could be programmed to crunch numbers at the rate of a trillion operations per second, a measure known as a teraflop. The chip is about the size of a large postage stamp, but it has the same calculation speed as a supercomputer that, in 1996, took up about 2,000 square feet and drew about 1,000 times more power." (Technology Review)