Happy to announce that the D-Wave #annealing #quantum computer remains at JSC after its purchase by Forschungszentrum Jülich. We’ve successfully hosted and used the D-Wave system for three years now. The Jülich Unified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) at JSC gains complete access to all aspects of the system, allowing us to integrate it in new ways for new purposes, e.g., connecting it to the #exascale #supercomputer #JUPITER soon. More: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025/forschungszentrum-julich-strengthens-quantum-research-with-purchase-of-expect

A bit of self promotion: Somehow, a few weeks ago I gave a talk at Systems @Scale 2023: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/prodspec-annealing-intent-based-deployment-at-google/

This talk is about a few things we've learned as we've changed most of Google deployment to an intent based system. It took quite a bit of time, as the underlying projects started around 2014 / 2015 :)

Now obviously every company has different constraints & challenges, so what applies to Google is likely different elsewhere. Nevertheless, I do believe there are some commonalities which are always interesting :) (I, for one, do enjoy and learn a lot reading this kind of things coming from other places).

Fwiw, the content largely comes from an article I published through Usenix 18 months ago:
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/prodspec-and-annealing-intent-based-actuation-google-production

The article goes into a *lot* more details on what we did, while the talk stays a lot more high level.

Printed Propeller Blades Repair Indoor Flyer

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/09/printed-propeller-blades-repair-indoor-flyer/

#3Dprintedparts #classichacks #RepairHacks #rubberband #annealing #propeller

Doesn't seem that here are many people talking about #quantumcomputing #quantum #qkd #quantumannealing #annealing #IBM #qiskit #dwave #qubit and such. Where are all the people?