are there any relevant references or this is just a hoax?

Startup you mentioned above (Quantum Research Partners, Santa Fe) is completely untraceble.

Saddened however by the fact that we have to wait an infinite time for the Answer, let me suggest another approach. It still draws on the advantages of using a (finite) string of qubits but limits the precision to some finite number (IEEE: get the standards committee going before we have a battle going between competing vendors regarding alternative representations.)

Qureals are basically a string of qubits (the length may vary, but by for historical reasons and following the gist of Matlab we may expect 32 or 64 qubits in each qureal.) The advantage of a qubit over an ordinary bit is that this is a superposition of the fundamental states 0 and 1, i.e. it is a linear combinations of these two fundamental states , or even a mixed state, which a all may be visualised as a Bloch 2-sphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit) instead of two points on the real line. Now, ponder that each double precision qureal represents a (2-sphere)^64 times the memory. With soon to be available in of-the-shelf QMPs (not even 640kqb might cover all future needs) this is indeed a big number. With the capabilities of the Stat Toolbox this should allow us to begin exploring the fifth dimension that Douglas Adams explains as being probability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional_space) in one of his later works titled Mostly Harmless.

A positive side-effect of the limited precision is that we may have an instant answer, thus in practice doing away with the time dimension and effectively replacing it with probability.

Lars