Google Joins Supercomputing Project
Google Inc. plans to help create a new laboratory to study quantum computing, a high-profile endorsement of the esoteric technology — and a Canadian company that has been pursuing it since 1999.
An unusual supercooled machine built by D-Wave Systems Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, will be installed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center, near Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. It will be operated by the nonprofit Universities Space Research Association.