Enterprise-grade Linux built for AMD

Freely accessible, AMD-optimized Rocky Linux with validated AMD GPU drivers and ROCm support pre-integrated. Designed for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPUs.

"Rocky Linux is already the OS of choice for performance-intensive computing. Adding AMD-specific optimization and keeping it freely accessible makes that combination even stronger for AI and HPC workloads."
Gregory Kurtzer
CEO of CIQ and Founder of Rocky Linux

A strong foundation for AMD-accelerated workloads

Deploy on day zero

Teams deploy AMD-accelerated workloads without the OS integration overhead. Drivers, ROCm libraries, and high-performance networking are already in the image.

Stay current with AMD

AMD's latest driver and platform features arrive in validated builds. CIQ handles the kernel-level integration and ongoing maintenance.

Scale on one foundation

The same validated image runs across every node, every refresh, and every upgrade. Reproducible from one host to thousand-node clusters.

Products

RLC Pro

Enterprise Linux with validated AMD GPU drivers and the AMD ROCm software platform pre-integrated.

RLC Pro AI

Enterprise AI Linux with validated GPU support. An AMD-optimized variant is on the partnership roadmap.

AMD ROCm stack integration

CIQ delivers the validated AMD ROCm software stack with AMD GPU drivers and RDMA / InfiniBand networking pre-integrated into Rocky Linux. Drivers are pre-compiled, signed, and continuously maintained. Get a validated, reproducible foundation for AI and HPC deployments on AMD Instinct GPUs.

Power mission-critical enterprise workloads worldwide

RLC+ AMD runs workloads across AI, HPC, and highly-regulated production environments.

AI model training and inference

Deploy large language models, computer vision, and real-time inference pipelines on validated ROCm environments that eliminate configuration overhead.

LLMsComputer visionMLOps

Scientific computing

Accelerate climate modeling, molecular dynamics, and astrophysics simulations with enterprise-grade AMD GPU compute.

Climate modelingDrug discoveryMaterials science

Financial modeling and risk

Run Monte Carlo simulations, portfolio risk modeling, and fraud detection with GPU-parallel computing on AMD Instinct accelerators.

Risk modelingMonte Carlo simulationFraud detection

GPU-accelerated data processing

Process large datasets with GPU-parallel ETL pipelines, accelerated analytics, and real-time transformations on ROCm-enabled AMD Instinct hardware.

Data pipelinesAccelerated analyticsReal-time ETL

Simulation and digital twins

Run complex physics simulations, digital twin modeling, and computational fluid dynamics on AMD Instinct GPUs with ROCm-accelerated compute.

CFDDigital twinsPhysics simulation

Multi-node HPC clusters

Scale GPU workloads across thousands of nodes with RCCL collective communications and RDMA / InfiniBand networking on AMD Instinct infrastructure.

Cluster computingRCCLInfiniBand

How it comes together

CIQ and AMD are working from the OS upward. After RLC+ AMD, the collaboration extends AMD-specific optimizations into the layers where cluster-scale performance is won: provisioning, automation, orchestration, and containers.

Future phases

CIQ plans to extend AMD optimizations across its full infrastructure stack. Timelines will be announced as development progresses.

Warewulf Pro

Cluster provisioning and image management at scale.

Ascender Pro

IT automation and configuration management.

Fuzzball

Workload orchestration for AI and HPC jobs.

Apptainer

Container runtime for high-performance computing.

About the partnership

RLC+ AMD gives developers and enterprises validated, ready-to-run access to AMD GPU drivers and the AMD ROCm software platform pre-integrated into Rocky Linux. Teams scale from development to production clusters with thousands of nodes on a single, validated, reproducible Linux foundation.

CIQ already serves as the authorized Linux foundation for the complete NVIDIA AI software stack. The collaboration with AMD extends that same model to AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD ROCm: a single, validated, reproducible Linux build that an accelerator vendor can confidently optimize against.