Introducing CIQ Mountain: The Hybrid Data Center Management and Security Platform

Introducing CIQ Mountain: The Hybrid Data Center Management and Security Platform

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...

Running a W&B Hyperparameter Sweep Agent from an Apptainer

Running a W&B Hyperparameter Sweep Agent from an Apptainer

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 Powers Supercomputers, Clusters, HPC, & AI

Rocky Linux Powers Supercomputers, Clusters, HPC, & AI

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...

How to Add Third-Party Modules to Cockpit

How to Add Third-Party Modules to Cockpit

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,...

Fact vs. Fiction: 10 Things You May Not Know About CIQ

Fact vs. Fiction: 10 Things You May Not Know About CIQ

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...

Managing Containerized Services with Apptainer and Systemd

Managing Containerized Services with Apptainer and Systemd

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...

Containerizing MoonRay: OSS from DreamWorks Animation Using Apptainer and Rocky Linux 9 Base Image
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Containerizing MoonRay: OSS from DreamWorks Animation Using Apptainer and Rocky Linux 9 Base Image

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...

Set It Free: Up Close with Rocky Founder Greg Kurtzer

Set It Free: Up Close with Rocky Founder Greg Kurtzer

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...