IBM relies on SUN workstation for quantum computing

Maybe their own stuff's not good enough

By Thomas C Greene in Washington DC • Get more from this author

Posted in Software, 10th January 2002 18:51 GMT

We thank SUN engineering tech James Gorremans for the following link to IBM's own PR Web site, clearly showing one of their researchers doing his quantum computations on a SUN workstation.

You'll need to expand the second image from the top, entitled Qcomp_Dual.jpg to see what we're talking about.

The site was quite slow when we visited, and now that we've linked it it's sure to slow down even more, so patience will be required. ®

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