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Open Source Thrives on Contribution, Not Just Consumption
Open source gives freely, but it thrives when users give back. True “open source companies” contribute time, code or care that keep the tools we all depend on strong and sustainable. Open source is a…
Helping Warewulf shine: a new web interface for cluster management
Warewulf, the open source cluster provisioning system, is in its fourth major release since its creation in 2001. It has become a foundational component of the HPC stack, even being included in the…
Data & System Recovery Considerations on Azure Confidential Computing (ACC)
If you’ve selected Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) for your workload, it’s because you demand the highest level of security available in the cloud for your most sensitive data. This extra security…
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) Enhancements for Improved Security
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a loadable Linux kernel module designed as a post-detection security mechanism. In essence, it acts as a kind of "tripwire" and "early warning system" for the…
Why Choose Rocky Linux from CIQ?
Linux has won! It has become the foundation of modern IT infrastructure, and powers everything from cloud environments to mission-critical applications. Its open source nature offers immense…
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Manage your CIQ account and software with CIQ Portal
Last week, we launched CIQ Portal, a management interface that allows our customers and partners to access and discover CIQ software. This is the first step in our delivery of our ultimate goal, which…
OpenELA Leapp Project: A Game Changer for Enterprise Linux Upgrades
CIQ is one of the founding organizations of OpenELA, and we are proud to see progress in the ultimate mission to preserve the open source nature of Enterprise Linux (EL) and promote its continued…
SCaLE 22x: Community, Reflection, and Second Chances
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) has always been more than just another tech conference—it was originally where old-school UNIX greybeards and fresh-faced Linux hackers came together to swap…
Educating the Next Generation of HPC Engineers with Open Source Tools
Preamble One of the highlights of the annual SC conference is the student cluster competition, where teams of students from around the world compete to build, administer, and benchmark a high…
Ansible Import vs. Include: What’s the Real Difference?
Bringing in certain modules in Ansible can be done either via an import or an include, but for the longest time, I never really knew the difference between the two. Documentation on the subject can be…
Setup an AWS EKS Hybrid Kubernetes Cluster with Rocky Linux
Introduction Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes (EKS-H), is a groundbreaking feature that enables seamless integration of on-premises and edge infrastructure with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters…
SC24 Recap: The Year of Fuzzball and Community Connections
Supercomputing 2024 (SC24) in Atlanta brought together the HPC (High Performance Computing) community for another exciting and well-attended event. For our team, it marked a moment in time where we…