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Organizations worldwide continue to face complex challenges in managing their software stacks and end-to-end solution deployments. To address this problem, CIQ is excited to announce the launch of CIQ Mountain. This powerful new platform helps you simplify infrastructure management and enhance your secure software supply chain, allowing you to focus more on your mission. CIQ...
Apptainer is the most popular container solution for HPC. It has great integration with common specialized HPC hardware/software like GPU devices and MPI software stacks, and the containerized model it brings adds security and reproducibility that make it ideal for deployment in a multi-user HPC cluster environment. One major use case for Apptainer is in...
Rocky Linux burst from the ashes of the CentOS project and quickly rose to be one of the fastest-growing enterprise distributions. Especially true in the high performance computing world, Rocky Linux provided a comparable, almost identical, operating system with easy migration paths to move off of CentOS. Rocky Linux maintains compatibility with RHEL releases and...
Cockpit is a great alternative to managing your Rocky Linux servers. With this well-designed GUI admin control panel, you can take care of a number of tasks out of the box, such as viewing logs; managing storage, networking, and containers; adding and editing user accounts, controlling services, updating software, viewing diagnostic reports and kernel dumps,...
If you’re familiar with CIQ, you know that we’ve been making waves in the tech industry as the company supporting cutting-edge software infrastructure solutions. From Rocky Linux, the fastest-growing Enterprise Linux distribution, to Fuzzball, the next generation of High Performance Computing (HPC), we continually strive to innovate with both our technology and service offerings as...
Since the humble beginnings of Linux, one of its strengths has been flexibility. The ability to do things exactly as you want is a part of the ethos of Linux. And it doesn't matter what you're doing with Linux: you can bend it, twist it, and shape it to serve exactly how you want. One...
Apptainer is often compared to Docker as both a container runtime engine and container management environment. In general, each tool targets a different use case; but the two projects notably differ in their runtime strategy. In general, Docker is designed to host system services, and Apptainer is designed to containerize end-user applications (often in a...
For most Linux admins, the command line is the default method for getting work done. And although that's a great way to eke as much power and flexibility from the OS as possible, there are more efficient methods for administering a server. And in the modern era, where IT pros, development teams, and DevOps are...
CIQ is honored to have been named Technology Company of the Year by Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. At their 16th Annual NCET Tech Awards on May 23, CIQ will be recognized for enhancing the growth and prestige of the technology community in Northern Nevada. CIQ is receiving the award in the wake of...
MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render DreamWorks movies. DreamWorks has released MoonRay as open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. This is major news for the animation community, with many contributors already onboard with MoonRay. The official document provides two ways of building MoonRay: (1) Building MoonRay in a Docker container...
Recently, we walked you through the process of creating a Samba share on Rocky Linux from the command line. That process shows how easy it is to set up a share on a per-user basis. But what if you have multiple users who need access to a share? There's an easy method of doing this,...
Editor’s note: This article by Joe Casad originally appeared in the Rocky Linux Focus Guide, published by Admin Network & Security magazine. Rocky Linux is new, but it draws from a long history of community-minded volunteers focused on keeping a free Linux option in the enterprise space. Rocky founder Greg Kurtzer tells the story. Tell...