Photonic-processor developer Q.ANT released an open-source software development kit, enabling developers to program photonic computing applications using Python and C/C++.

Q.ANT released an open-source software development kit (SDK) and associated application programming interfaces (APIs) for photonic computing. HPCwire reports that developers can use Python and C/C++ to create software for photonic computers.

The company announcement says developers can write, run, and test applications accelerated by photonic processing. Founder and CEO Michael Förtsch described the release as demonstrating progress integrating photonic computing into the existing high-performance computing (HPC) software stack.

Q.ANT calls the release the world’s first open-source SDK for photonic computing, a priority claim attributed to the company. The supplied excerpts provide no benchmark results, supported-operation list, hardware pricing, or licensing details beyond the open-source designation.