Like the night warrior of the sky, the first quantum computer ever to go live, Orion, will be able to take on multiple challenges at once in a fraction of the time it takes conventional computers. Built by D-Wave, a quantum-computing company based in British Columbia, Canada, the computer houses a supercooled, superconducting niobium chip housing an array of 16 qubits. Comprised of superconducting metal niobium, it is supercooled to near absolute zero to allow the qubits to maintain their quantum state throughout a calculation. Orion is set to solve some of the most difficult problems plaguing computers, that of the nondeterministic polynomial variety (also called NP-Complete). NP problems are the most difficult to solve on conventional computers because each variable adds yet another dimension to its possible solutions. NP-complete problems exist everywhere in computing, from database searches to pattern-matching to medical applications that identify diseases from symptoms and matches for genetic material. D-Wave plans to lease time on the computer, which will be accessed over a secure Internet connection.
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