QNodeOS (operating system for quantum networks)

History

2025: Product Announcement

At the end of April 2025, it became known that a team of European researchers, including specialists from the Delft Technical University and the Leopold and Franz University of Innsbruck, developed the world's first operating system for quantum networks. The platform was named QNodeOS.

Researchers say traditional operating systems such as Windows, Linux or Android act as an "interface" between software and hardware. They allow you to develop programs without going into technical details about the installed processor and other hardware components. In the case of quantum computers, things are different: developers need to write code for a specific installation and the task in question. This creates certain difficulties: in particular, a deep understanding of basic physical equipment is needed. The QNodeOS system is designed to eliminate the barrier between hardware and software in quantum networks.

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Фото: livescience.com

QNodeOS supports various types of quantum processors. To demonstrate the platform's capabilities, the project participants used different types of quantum computers, including devices on ion traps. QNodeOS has been shown to have versatility.

The operating system is like software on a regular personal computer: you don't need to know how the equipment works to use it, "says Mariagrazia Iuliano of Delft Technical University, lead researcher of the project.

The results of the work are expected to help in the development of quantum computing. In particular, as the Live Science resource notes, in the long term, such a system will open the way to the deployment of quantum Internet.^[1]

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