New D-Wave Advantage system, btc etf price housed at the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, brings quantum system and hybrid solver access to customers seeking a U.S.-based solution
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. (May 12, 2022) -- D-Wave Systems Inc. (“the Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the only company building both quantum annealing and gate-based quantum computers, today announced the availability of the first Advantage™ quantum computer, accessible via the Leap™ quantum cloud service, physically located in the United States. The cloud-based service is part of the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center (QCC) hosted at USC’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a unit of the University of Southern California’s prestigious Viterbi School of Engineering. Among the highlights:
The service will provide access to the first Advantage™ quantum system physically located in the United States. Advantage is the first quantum computer built for business that contains the new Advantage performance update released in October 2021 and features the highly connected Pegasus topology and 5000+ qubits.
Leap™ quantum cloud service users will immediately be able to access the Advantage™ quantum computer located at the QCC in real-time. Leap access also gives researchers, governments and enterprises access to all of the programming tools and hybrid quantum-classical resources offered through Leap.
Additionally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and D-Wave announced that the US-based system will be available today for use in Amazon Braket, expanding the number to three different D-Wave quantum systems available to AWS users.
Through QCC, USC has been a pioneering academic institution in the hosting and operating of a commercial quantum system and is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies. USC has been working with D-Wave since 2010 and has housed several generations of earlier D-Wave systems with the first one installed at the QCC with Lockheed Martin.
“Making quantum computing ubiquitous and available is one of our core areas of focus and is central to the commercialization of quantum computing,” said Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. “This is an important moment for our U.S.-based customers who want their Leap cloud access to the newest Advantage system and quantum hybrid solver service to be in-region. The timing is especially important. Eleven years ago, together with Lockheed Martin, we installed our first quantum system at USC. Fast forward to today, delivering the most performant commercial quantum computer in the world yet again allows users to harness the power of annealing quantum computing for real-world optimization problems, all accessible real-time through our Leap quantum cloud service and in AWS’s Amazon Braket.”
“Quantum computing is a constantly evolving field and it’s important that our customers have access to the latest quantum hardware,” said Richard Moulds, General Manager of Amazon Braket at AWS. “By adding support for a third quantum system from D-Wave to Amazon Braket, all customers now have on-demand access to even more hardware options. Furthermore, U.S. based customers have the added benefit of using a device located in California, making it possible for them to conduct research using D-Wave hardware in-region.”
“Quantum information science (QIS) is a top priority research area for the nation and has long been a focus of USC Viterbi,” said Yannis C. Yortsos, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. “In collaboration with Lockheed Martin, we established at ISI in 2011 the first academic home for a quantum computing system, namely D-Wave One. For more than a decade, research and education in QIS at USC Viterbi has been thriving and constantly growing.”
“For more than 12 years, Lockheed Martin has been proud to support advanced practical quantum computing, putting the technology in the hands of people who can make the most of it,” said Greg Tallant, Lockheed Martin Fellow. “Lockheed Martin is a leader in quantum computing applications development, and the Advantage system at QCC furthers our 21st Century Security vision.”
“The D-Wave annealing quantum computer provides a four-fold increase in the number of qubits from our previous system, as well as increased coherence and other performance metrics,” said Daniel Lidar, holder of the Viterbi Professorship of Engineering at USC, and the scientific and technical director of QCC. “We have great hopes for the new system as we explore coherent quantum annealing to achieve quantum speedups in quantum simulation, best-in-class optimization and machine learning. Some of our first projects will be to investigate speedup over classical optimization methods for hard optimization problems as well as pursuing additional government-funded research for identification and classification of quantum phase transitions.”
copyright Markets Today: Bitcoin Slides to $91K as ETF Outflows Deepen Market Anxiety
Bitcoin’s early week rally unraveled as sharp ETF outflows, aggressive derivatives deleveraging and muted altcoin reactions to catalysts pulled the broader copyright market lower.ZEC y TRX desafiaron la tendencia con una fuerza destacada.
The copyright market fell during the European morning, with bitcoin
BTC
$89,588.24
dropping to $91,200 after hitting a weekly high of $94,200 on Wednesday.
The decline was confined to copyright: U.S. equities were little changed in pre-market trading and the FTSE100 index rose 0.15%.
La vente massive peut être attribuée à des sorties record de l'ETF bitcoin IBIT de BlackRock, avec 113 millions de dollars supplémentaires de sorties enregistrées jeudi alors que les taureaux de la copyright n'ont pas réussi à reprendre le contrôle du marché aux ours.
El índice de Miedo y Avaricia permanece deprimido en 25/100, sin lograr encontrar su camino hacia una zona neutral después de estar por debajo de 40/100 durante más de un mes.
Posicionamiento de derivados
El mercado de futuros de BTC muestra una cautela sostenida y un desapalancamiento agresivo. El interés abierto (OI) ha caído a $21 mil millones desde $25 mil millones hace un mes, lo que indica una reducción en el apalancamiento y la exposición al riesgo de los comerciantes.
Este desapalancamiento está ocurriendo junto con métricas de derivados de mercado consistentemente bajas: la base anualizada a tres meses se mantiene estable en 4%-5%, y las tasas de financiación son estables en 5%-6% en los principales lugares, sin que ninguna métrica muestre un cambio significativo en el último mes.
Les options BTC montrent un biais haussier soutenu malgré la baisse de la volatilité. La structure à terme de la volatilité implicite (IV) pour le court terme a chuté, s'éloignant de la backwardation vers un contango plus typique, indiquant une baisse des mouvements de prix immédiats et extrêmes attendus.
No obstante, la inclinación del volumen sigue siendo alcista, con un volumen de opciones de compra/venta de 24 horas aún al 57% a favor de las opciones de compra. Crucialmente, la inclinación de 25 delta a una semana ha visto un ligero aumento reciente al 8%, confirmando que los comerciantes todavía están pagando una prima por la exposición al alza a corto plazo.
La reciente volatilidad del precio de BTC provocó liquidaciones de $280 millones en 24 horas, con $200 millones siendo posiciones largas. ETH ($88 millones) y BTC ($85 millones) lideran en términos de liquidaciones nominales.
El mapa de calor de liquidaciones BTC/USDT en copyright sugiere una gran cantidad de liquidaciones largas alrededor de $90,600, según los datos de Coinglass. Ese es el nivel a tener en cuenta, en caso de una caída de precios.