Post date: May 07, 2015 2:20:13 AM
Image: Inside the D-Wave Two quantum computer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility. A dilution refrigerator cools the 512-qubit Vesuvius processor to 20 millikelvin (near absolute zero) — more than 100 times colder than interstellar space. Image Credit: NASA Ames / John Hardman.