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Originally Posted by mykalberta
You are right about the current encryption methods.
There are alot of security methodologies/theories that are simply limited by computing speed and bandwidth.
If this is actually true (and that is a big if that a Vancouver company would be the first to do this) that would be an AMAZING feat for a Canadian scientific community. I would put this above Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone in that magnitude and importance.
You will likely see this snapped up but the US special research projects (I am really surprised this hasnt already happend via Darpa or the US University Computing Networking Intiative).
Time to commercial use would easily be 50 years away before you start seeing computers with it and would likely be priced in the 5-10K range for starter systems.
I personally dont expect this to hit the commercial market - there isnt really anything a home user would need. I expect the home compting market to max out at around 8.4 Ghz processors. After that the home computer will liekly become the way of the diosaur with it being built into TV's
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Well a big chunk of their early funding came from a silicon valley VC firm called
Draper Fischer Jurvetson who are more open than most investors to bleeding edge companies, but they aren't philanthropic at all so there must be a feasable way for them to cash out in the next few years...
By the way another cool Alberta high performance computing company that all you propellerheads may find interesting is
Obsidian Research in Edmonton. Basically supercomputers use a protocol called Infiniband to talk to one another, but was only able to be used with the computers close to one another. OR's technology allows the 'clustering' of supercomputers over greater distances...big time interest from NASA, Financial Institutions, Military, Universities etc.
If I only had $20k to invest/lose *sigh*