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The following tutorial will walk through how to join your Warewulf managed compute nodes to Active Directory. This tutorial assumes that you have the following prerequisites satisfied: Join Compute Node to Active Directory Let’s install the required packages to join your compute node to Active Directory into your node image, using the wwctl container shell...
The recent SC23 conference provided an exciting window into the future of High Performance Computing (HPC). Over 14,000 people attended the event, which showcased cutting-edge technologies and groundbreaking community endeavors. Here’s a look at how CIQ’s products and services fit into this rapidly evolving landscape. Rocky Linux: the rising star of HPC One of the...
We are very excited that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has released Rocky Linux 9.3 for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures! As the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux, we’d like to express our appreciation to our team as well as the entire developer community for all their hard work...
With the exciting collaboration between CIQ and Altair, the fusion of containerization and cloud technologies is propelling OpenRadioss to new heights. We delved into the details of this dynamic partnership in our recent webinar, which features Eric Lequiniou, senior vice president, Radioss development, and Altair solver HPC. You can watch the entire video here. Keep...
WordPress has evolved from being nothing more than a blogging platform to one of the most widely used Content Management System (CMS) tools on the planet. WordPress can be used as a company site, an e-commerce solution, a social network, help forum, video site, online portfolio, and so much more. Although you might be tempted...
When using inventories in Ascender and AWX, it’s often advantageous to take advantage of dynamic inventories. This really just means a way to query a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for a list of hosts and their variables. There are many ways baked into Ascender to do this with services like Amazon, Google, or VMWare, but...
Connecting Ascender and/or Ansible to a Windows host can seem a little obtuse at first, but the aim here is to get you up to speed with as few steps as possible. The demo will be showing a classic, pushing Windows updates, but with a twist; I’ll be creating a VMware snapshot first, performing updates;...
CIQ is excited to announce a collaboration with Google Cloud to help customers secure and accelerate their CentOS migrations with new Rocky Linux solutions from CIQ built for Google Cloud. With the upcoming end-of-life of CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024, many are still evaluating the best path forward to secure and operate their Linux...
If you plan on attending SC23, be sure to add our CIQ talks, partner talks, and demos to your schedule. Our CIQ experts will be on hand at the following locations/times to talk about CIQ and provide demos of Rocky Linux, Mountain, Ascender, Apptainer, Warewulf, and Fuzzball. Here’s what we have scheduled so far! Tuesday,...
At CIQ, we've always believed in the transformative power of collaboration. As you may know, CIQ, along with Oracle and SUSE, formed OpenELA to deliver open source code, tools, and systems for the community. And now, we are excited to share a pivotal update: Opening up the code universe CIQ understands that code transparency and...
Containers have gained massive popularity in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments as users and administrators realize their essential value. To explain the ‘how’ and ‘why’ containers are such a good choice for research data management, CIQ’s Dave Godlove provided an introductory overview in a recent webinar for the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC). You can...
We’re happy to announce Mountain V2, with a new backend that is going to allow for new and awesome features! It also brings along additional security features like two-factor authentication (2FA). In order to achieve these awesome new features we need to: setup 2FA in Mountain V2, create new authentication keys for our products, and...