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Home > Press > Harris & Harris Group Portfolio Company, D-Wave Systems, Announces the Sale of Its Latest Quantum Computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TINY), an investor in transformative companies enabled by disruptive science, notes that its portfolio company, D-Wave Systems, Inc., announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X™ system.

Harris & Harris Group Portfolio Company, D-Wave Systems, Announces the Sale of Its Latest Quantum Computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory

New York, NY | Posted on November 11th, 2015

Los Alamos, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, will lead a collaboration within the Department of Energy and with select university partners to explore the capabilities and applications of quantum annealing technology, consistent with the goals of the government-wide National Strategic Computing Initiative. The D-Wave 2X system is expected to be installed at Los Alamos in early 2016.

D-Wave's press release can be viewed at www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/los-alamos-national-laboratory-orders-1000-qubit-d-wave-2x-quantum-computer.

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