Patent ID: 8195726

Claim:
A problem solving system, comprising: a first digital processor configured to track computational problem processing requests received from at least one user, and to track at least one of a status and a processing cost for each of the computational problem processing requests; a first analog processor operable to co-process one or more solutions to at least one computational problem embodied in the computational problem processing requests; a pre-processing manager configured to receive computational problem processing requests, and to convert a computational problem processing request into a first set of instructions; and an analog processor interface operable to receive the first set of instructions from the pre-processing manager; wherein the first analog processor comprises a quantum processor comprising at least two qubits, at least one coupling device, and at least one local bias device; and wherein the pre-processing manager comprises logic to determine an initial coupling value for the at least one coupling device and to determine an initial local bias value for the at least one local bias device.