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CIQ launches the Academic Research Computing Advantage for R1 universities
R1 universities manage some of the most complex computing infrastructure in the world. Most do it with teams of two to five people, on budgets that have not kept pace with the complexity they manage…
The five-layer AI framework everyone is building on, and the foundation that makes it work.
HumanX 2026 mapped the full AI stack. Here is the layer that determines whether any of it performs in production. HumanX 2026 opened with a framework. NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro took the stage on…
How to deploy RLC Pro on AWS
Your EC2 instance is running RLC Pro with LTS enabled and FIPS packages available before you write a single line of application code. That is the outcome. Here is how to get there. AWS has broad…
Your AI vendor knows more about your business than you think.
Every prompt your team sends is data you don't get back. Here's how enterprises are taking control. Most enterprise technology leaders have been unable to fully answer one pressing question: What…
How to deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure
How much time does your team spend configuring Enterprise Linux after launch? LTS repos, FIPS packages, support credentials: it adds up fast, and none of it is the work you actually spun up the…
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Why RLC Pro Hardened starts where others finish
February 2026 | Based on independent OpenSCAP DISA STIG benchmark testing Running Linux in a regulated or security-sensitive environment means hardening your OS before you can trust it. That usually…
Does it run on Rocky Linux? Now there's a place to find out, and a fast path to make it official
The question every enterprise team is now asking twice One of the most important areas an organization must consider when selecting an operating system is vendor support. We're not just talking about…
fuzzball run: Immediate access to Fuzzball compute
Before Fuzzball v3.2, running nvidia-smi on a GPU node required 14 lines of YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) and five separate CLI commands. Fuzzball workflows handle multi-stage pipelines with…
AI infrastructure labor: What GPU setup really costs
The AI infrastructure teams we work with consistently report spending 30–50% of their engineering time on infrastructure work: configuring CUDA environments, debugging driver conflicts, rebuilding…
Container workflows in HPC: Integrating Apptainer with cluster management
Containers have changed how researchers package and share computational workflows. But integrating container runtimes with cluster infrastructure isn't automatic: it requires coordination between…
Community Rocky Linux, RLC+, and RLC Pro: Which option fits your infrastructure?
Rocky Linux is an open source, community-driven Enterprise Linux distribution. CIQ, the founding support partner of the project, builds on that foundation with two offerings: RLC+ and RLC Pro. All…