CIQ Blog: What's New in Enterprise Linux & AI Infrastructure
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Run HPC and AI workflows from one file with Fuzzball
Asked to run HPC, Kubernetes, and generative AI on separate stacks? Fuzzball runs one workflow definition on the clusters and clouds you have.
Use the OS to get more from your GPUs with RLC Pro AI
The OS controls how much of each GPU your workloads use. See what RLC Pro AI tunes, validates, and maintains for your team.
Build an AI kit before you buy an AI factory
Every layer of the AI stack changes within a year. Build your AI infrastructure from independent layers you can replace when hardware or workloads change.
Build an AI kit: CIQ at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Idle GPUs and fixed stacks cost AI teams time and money. A recap of the CIQ session at AI Infrastructure Field Day.
Connecting Warewulf Managed Compute Nodes to Active Directory
Connect Warewulf Pro compute nodes to LDAP with SSSD, and keep the directory password out of the node image that every node downloads
How CIQ got PHP2Shell fixes from upstream to RLC Pro
CIQ shipped PHP2Shell fixes for RLC Pro LTS 9.6 and 9.2 about 3.5 hours after upstream, built from PHP's source-only 8.0 fix.
OpenAI generated 948 Linux kernel patches, but CVEs aren’t solved
Last week, OpenAI announced it had discovered 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and generated patches it offered to the upstream Kernel.org project. It’s a real milestone for AI in security, and it’s…
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Parameter count won't pick your local LLM for hard questions
Across 11 local models on GPQA Diamond, active parameter count correlated negatively with score. Sparsity and release date failed too
How CIQ shipped CVE-2026-98432 fixes in three days
Our kernel team spent the last weekend of October shipping patched kernels for a critical Linux CVE. On Tuesday, October 27, Anthropic reported a working proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-98432.…
Cost of CVE remediation is paid in roadmap time
A complex CVE like PHP2Shell pulls engineers off roadmap work. See what that work involves, and decide whose engineers should do it every day.
Tokens per second won't tell you what an answer costs on a Strix Halo
On a Strix Halo, a model 13x worse per token can be cheaper per answer. Per-answer cost, speed and active parameters across 27 local models