|
Abstract:
|
With the ever-increasing demand for computing horsepower challenging the ability of conventional High Performance Computing to keep pace, Lockheed Martin has made significant investments in quantum computing as a potentially revolutionary and complementary computational paradigm. LM's acquisition in 2011 of a D-Wave quantum annealing machine, jointly operated by LM and the University of Southern California, has enabled the research community to gain a better understanding of what the D-Wave machine is doing, and catalyzed progress in the development of quantum computing hardware and algorithms. Through our 6 years of experience developing applications on actual quantum hardware, we have demonstrated the potential for quantum annealing to address hard computational problems in the aerospace industry, as well as other industries including healthcare. We will briefly review the concepts behind quantum computing, and describe how this technology could be applied to solving optimization and machine learning problems in the healthcare industry.
|
