# Running QAOA on X8?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/running-qaoa-on-x8/1274 "2021-08-11T18:08:04Z")\
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Hi @mhakimi ,

Unfortunately displacements cannot be implemented on our current hardware and there’s no plan to add it. Our new hardware architecture is based on measurement-based quantum computing. These use CV gates for the _creation_ of our GKP qubits but not for the actual computation. The computation is done via measurements, which apply DV gates (i.e. the normal gates you see everywhere in the literature).

While our latest hardware, Aurora, is not available online, you can read about it in our [blog post](https://xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-introduces-aurora-worlds-first-scalable-networked-and-modular-quantum-computer). You can also read our [demo on measurement-based quantum computing](https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_mbqc), which can be a great insight onto how our newest machines work!

Let us know if you have any additional questions.

I hope this helps!

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