D-wave quantum processor

the same USC paper that reported the quantum annealing behavior of the D-Wave One, also showed no speed advantage whatsoever for quantum annealing over classical simulated annealing. In more detail, Matthias Troyer’s group spent a few months carefully studying the D-Wave problem—after which, they were able to write optimized simulated annealing code that solves the D-Wave problem on a normal, off-the-shelf classical computer, about 15 times faster than the D-Wave machine itself solves the D-Wave problem!

NASA, Google och Lockhead verkar ju ha testat den med bra resultat och det negativa gäller ju äldre versioner så visst är det en quantum dator men inte på det "traditionella" sättet. Om det innebär att den är "äkta" eller inte spelar väl ingen roll om man får 3600ggr fortare beräkningar som man verkar ha fått.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-nasa-...

So far, people have mostly used these machines to explore possible applications of quantum computing and to investigate how the computer behaves, rather than to solve previously unanswered problems.

D-Wave has battled to prove that its computer really operates on a quantum level, and that it is better or faster than a conventional computer. Before striking the latest deal, the prospective customers set a series of tests for the quantum computer. D-Wave hired an outside expert in algorithm-racing, who concluded that the speed of the D-Wave Two was above average overall, and that it was 3,600 times faster than a leading conventional computer when working on the specific type of problem that the quantum computer was built to solve.