Although the updates were live and the systems were working, he had yet to perform his final checks and his shift was nearly over. Using the native query language, he entered DIFF "BASE X:MEDSEA -24H" & TEST.LOG. This was a standard query to give him the difference between current live activity levels in the Med and those he'd logged earlier. The baseline results would tell him whether the query engine was working as expected. Distracted by thoughts of his quantum tests, he turned to his second screen and opened the summary document containing the results from his D-Wave tests. A lot of people in Big Data were envious of him and his research opportunity. Classical computers had been around for decades but quantum computers were new and exotic. Those working with the D-Wave were working to answer the exciting questions of the day. What would happen when computers operated under quantum rules? Could quantum computing really work? How would it work? Traditional computers worked with information in the form of bits.
