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CIQ Completes Testing of Popular Machine Learning Frameworks, Utilities and Libraries for Artificial Intelligence for Mountain Subscribers

Mountain, the CIQ repo-as-a-service offering, launched in May and has rapidly added new enterprise functionality.

RENO, Nev., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CIQ, the company building innovation with Rocky Linux, today unveiled new capabilities of software subscriptions available in the CIQ Mountain offering. CIQ tested popular machine learning frameworks TensorFlow and PyTorch as well as other artificial intelligence utilities and libraries including Jupyter notebooks to ensure execution on top of the HPC software stacks. The newly tested capabilities expand the set of key applications and functions compatible with the HPC subscriptions based on Rocky 8 and Rocky 9 that were announced in June.

"We are demonstrating that the HPC software infrastructure fits the range of workloads from classic HPC simulations to the newer AI use cases. This is especially valuable to support the rapid rise of blended workflows where classic HPC and AI work in conjunction," says Brock Taylor, vice president of high performance computing and strategic partners at CIQ.

We are demonstrating that the HPC software infrastructure fits the range of workloads from classic HPC simulations to the newer AI use cases.

Additionally, CIQ has also worked with Intel to provide optimized AI tools for Intel architectures, including the toolsets noted above. This joint effort will promote using these tools in cloud deployments and also in conjunction with the CIQ HPC software stacks available as subscriptions in CIQ Mountain.

Taylor continued, "the collaboration with Intel also allows us to provide optimizations that Intel has made under the hood as a value-add service. This partnership fits perfectly with the CIQ mantra to empower people."

CIQ Mountain is a global repository that provides software and artifact delivery and lifecycle management for turnkey solutions at any scale and across different infrastructure types, both on premises and in the cloud. All assets in the Mountain repository are certified, tested and backed by enterprise-level support from CIQ experts. The offering launched in May with a set of certified and supported assets and turnkey solutions such as Rocky Linux images, verifiable packages, containers, individual applications and microservices with their associated configurations.

Additions to the Mountain repository in the past 30 days include full HPC stack subscriptions for Rocky 8 and Rocky 9, builds of Warewulf and Apptainer for use with Rocky 8 and Rocky 9, and rapid bug fix support now delivered to subscribers via the Mountain platform. Tested codes added in June for popular open source research applications include Quantum Espresso for computational chemistry, OpenFOAM for computational fluid dynamics, LAMMPS for molecular dynamics simulation and GROMACS for molecular dynamics simulation. Learn more about these new capabilities in this CIQ blog post.

To learn more about CIQ Mountain, visit the CIQ Mountain landing page or email info@ciq.com.

Mountain Update Webinar CIQ hosted a webinar to explain these and other new features added to Mountain since its launch. You can watch the replay of the webinar at this link.

Additionally, CIQ will host a series of webinars throughout the balance of 2023, covering topics that include:

  • CentOS EOL and Migration to Rocky Linux
  • Research Computing Roundtable: Sustainability in HPC and HPCaas
  • OpenStack on Rocky with OpenStack Ansible
  • Integration of Apptainer with SLURM workload manager
  • Setting up PyTorch to run ChatGPT on Rocky Linux
  • HPC Disasters and How to Recover From Them
  • The Best Way to Build an HPC Cluster with Apptainer
  • Ongoing updates on Mountain, Fuzzball, and Warewulf Products