and graphics. (viz: nVidia's CUDA, AMD's Stream, cross-platform OpenCL). lot of graphics cards out there. and tv sets. and audio gear. and medical imaging. spread it out onto signal transforms (fourier, laplace, etc.) in general, and you've got all the telecoms and networking (multiplexing, channel bonding). Big Data. Finance/HFT. (and don't mind that Internet thing, it's just a fad...)

... more or less, anything with FPGA in it.

basically, as long as the underlying applied computational algorithms can be parallelized, QC is extraordinarily useful.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

-- Thomas J. Watson, 1943

GLTA,

R.

ak> It is advantageousonly for parallel computations, i.e. when the same operations are performed on many data. [...] the market potential for quantum computers is be very small.