Specifically, the computers are designed to use quantum annealing to solve a single type of problem known as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization.
[9] As with the D-Wave One, this restricted connectivity greatly limits the optimization problems that can be approached with the hardware.
[13][14] In May 2013, Catherine McGeoch verified that D-Wave Two finds solutions to a synthetic benchmark set of Ising spin optimization problems.
[17] A D-Wave Two in the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division of Ames Research Center is used.
[23][24] In January 2021, a multi-institutional group of researches from ORNL, Purdue and D-Wave generated accurate results from materials science simulations on the DWave-2000Q processor that can be verified with neutron scattering experiments and other practical techniques.