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Linux kernel CVEs 2025: what security leaders need to know to prepare for 2026
The first 16 days of 2025 delivered 134 new Linux kernel CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures—the standard system for tracking security flaws).1 By October, CISA had added seven kernel…
Congratulations to NVIDIA and SchedMD: A new chapter for Slurm and the HPC community
Yesterday's announcement that NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD marks a significant milestone for the HPC and AI communities. On behalf of everyone at CIQ, I want to extend our congratulations to both…
Fuzzball + Slurm/PBS: Container orchestration meets traditional HPC schedulers
At SC25 in St. Louis, I had the opportunity to showcase one of the most significant new additions to Fuzzball's capabilities: native integration with PBS Professional and Slurm workload managers. This…
KubeCon Wrap Up
Last week, CIQ participated in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. CIQ's very own Chris Short hosted a talk during the event, participated in the CNCF Maintainers Summit…
Compliance Automation with Ascender Pro
A Q&A with Jimmy Conner, Principal Customer Advocate at CIQ Compliance doesn’t have to be painful. In this Q&A, we explore how Ascender Pro transforms compliance from a time-consuming burden into an…
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Why Fedora EPEL statistics might be the best indicator of Enterprise Linux adoption
It’s very difficult to understand which Enterprise Linux distributions are most popular because nearly every organization is concerned about security and privacy. In this context, admins typically…
SMS Foundation: The Traditional OpenHPC Way
Your System Management Server is the brain, nervous system, and beating heart of your HPC cluster, all rolled into one. Get it wrong and you'll be fighting configuration gremlins for years. Get it…
CIQ and RESF Team Up to Improve Rocky Linux Errata
We're pleased to share some updates about recent improvements to Apollo, the tooling that powers Rocky Linux security advisories. This work is an excellent example of CIQ and the Rocky Enterprise…
OpenHPC on Rocky Linux: Painless HPC cluster management
OpenHPC has quietly become the Swiss Army knife of HPC deployments - but substitute tiny scissors and a toothpick for a complete stack of pre-integrated scientific computing tools that actually work…
All Things Open 2025 Recap: Strengthening the future of open source
CIQ had the pleasure of sponsoring All Things Open this year. What is All Things Open? In their own words, "All Things Open is a technology conference focusing on the tools, processes and people…
Linux Security: a comparison of manual vs pre-hardening of the operating system
It’s quite possible that your security team is losing a race they can't possibly win. In 2018, attackers needed about 63 days between discovering a vulnerability and exploiting it in the wild. By 202…
How to Enable Kdump in Warewulf Nodes
Introduction Kdump utilizes kexec to swiftly boot into a dump-capture kernel whenever a memory dump of the system kernel is required, such as during a system panic. This process preserves the system…