Members of the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) from TU Delft, QuTech, University of Innsbruck, INRIA, and CNRS have published a research paper detailing what they bill as the world's first operating system, QNodeOS, designed for quantum networks (via Phys.org). QNodeOS is designed to be hardware-agnostic and strives to abstract away low-level details from programmers for easy application development and deployment. It is a platform-independent framework capable of executing applications in a quantum network using high-level programming languages.
It is important to understand that QNodeOS targets quantum networks, rather than quantum computers. Put simply, quantum computers or processors like Microsoft's latest Majorana 1 chip are built to perform computations using the laws of quantum physics, such as entanglement and superposition. In contrast, quantum networks connect these quantum devices, facilitating coordination and are key for distributed quantum computing.
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