Here's WALDO: AI's first open source project and community
Most sovereignty conversations stop at infrastructure: where a model runs, who hosts it, who can see your prompts. That covers three of the four things an organization needs to control. It skips the…
Entitlement without enforcement: how ELM handles content access
Entitlement resolves once at the mirror. No subscription-enforcement service to stand up, and no host checks in during a rollout.
How to manage a Linux fleet you can actually account for
A guided demo of Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM): manage what your whole Linux fleet runs from one place, test changes, decide what reaches production, and know what's deployed. On your own infrastructure. Comes with RLC Pro.
A global data protection vendor builds its Linux backup future on RLC Pro
A global data backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience vendor expanded from Windows into Linux by building its backup repository ISO and infrastructure appliance on RLC Pro, with FIPS 140-3 certified cryptography on a limited footprint CIQ maintains.
FYR Diagnostics builds a production-ready multiomic platform on Fuzzball
FYR Diagnostics partnered with CIQ to give its AI-enabled EV-Omics platform a scalable, reproducible analytics foundation, cutting pipeline onboarding from days to minutes and reaching 100x throughput potential across 8 to 10 multiomic pipeline types.
Sovereign inference in one pull and deploy
Guest post by Zach Deane-Mayer @ AI Insight Solutions The frontier labs sell turnkey AI, priced by the token. The lab sets that price, picks the deprecation schedule, and can revoke your access at…
Making computing serve the science: Wolfgang Resch’s journey to Fuzzball
In 2001, Wolfgang Resch was studying HIV drug resistance when a biological question pulled him toward computation. Researchers could measure a viral isolate’s clinically relevant characteristics…
The CVE didn't bring the fleet down. The patch meant to fix it did.
How to catch a breaking change before it reaches your fleet, prove it on a few hosts, and back it out in one move.
What's New in Fuzzball 4.2
Fuzzball 4.2: point an AI agent at your cluster, let workflows launch their own work, and let nodes report their own health. See it live.
Your GPUs are throttled by the kernel you inherited
The kernel decides how much GPU capacity reaches your workload. RLC Pro AI ships Linux 6.18 with validated NVIDIA drivers and the CUDA toolkit
Migrate to RLC Pro from any Linux environment
See the direct path to RLC Pro from RHEL, Oracle Linux, SUSE, Amazon Linux 2, or Linux running without a support contract today.
Arcee AI selects Fuzzball for portable workload orchestration at frontier scale
Fuzzball will help Arcee coordinate compute-intensive model-development workflows across cloud and on-premises environments while Arcee retains control of its models, data, and training and inference…
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What each product in the CIQ portfolio is for, and the briefs, guides, and portal links that go with it. Expand a product to see the detail.
OS Layer
CIQ's free tier, with variants purpose-built for major hardware ecosystems.
- RLC+ NVIDIA includes the complete NVIDIA AI and networking stack validated and ready out-of-the-box with CUDA Toolkit and DOCA-OFED pre-integrated, eliminating hours of driver setup before a single GPU-accelerated job runs.
- RLC+ AMD, coming soon, delivers AMD Instinct GPU drivers and ROCm support pre-integrated.
When requirements extend to LTS, FIPS validation, production SLOs, and indemnification, that is where RLC Pro begins.
A complete rethinking of what an Enterprise Linux vendor owes its customers. RLC Pro provides direct bug fixes, committed CVE timelines, Long-Term Support, and FIPS 140-3 as an all-inclusive subscription with no inventory tracking. Every enterprise requirement is treated as a baseline, not an add-on: binary compatibility, security, update SLAs, FIPS validation, indemnification, and support from engineers who helped build Rocky Linux.
A security-hardened variant of RLC Pro preconfigured for high-compliance environments. Ships 95%+ DISA STIG and 99% CIS compliant at first boot, no manual configuration required. Active defense is embedded directly in the OS: Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) detects exploitation as it occurs, not after. Hardened memory allocator, hardened glibc and OpenSSH, cryptographically signed packages, and an SBOM per image provide layered protection against entire classes of vulnerabilities before they are known or disclosed.
Built with an AI-first mindset from the kernel layer up. The CIQ Linux Kernel (CLK), CUDA Toolkit, and DOCA-OFED ship commercially authorized and pre-integrated: drivers, kernel modules, and runtime dependencies validated together before release. PyTorch and vLLM combinations tested per release. The same validated stack runs identically on bare-metal, AWS, GCP, Azure, and sovereign on-premises infrastructure. Secure Boot, Confidential Computing, and a per-image SBOM included as standard.
Orchestration Layer
A cloud-native workload orchestration platform for AI and HPC that keeps data, models, and computation on infrastructure you control. Fuzzball unifies model training, fine-tuning, validation, and inference in a single portable workflow: on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Integrates with existing Slurm and PBS Professional deployments.
Enterprise-grade stateless cluster provisioning. Warewulf Pro manages the full lifecycle of bare-metal compute nodes via a web UI. Nodes boot from a known image every time, so configuration drift does not accumulate and new clusters deploy in days rather than weeks.
Enterprise infrastructure automation built on AWX. Ascender Pro delivers workflow orchestration, configuration management, compliance reporting, and drift remediation at fleet scale. CVE dashboards and exportable audit records are generated as a byproduct of normal operations, not a separate staff project.
The leading open-source container runtime for HPC and scientific computing. Apptainer runs containers without root privileges and integrates natively into shared, multi-tenant cluster environments where Docker is not appropriate.
Platform Tools
A compatibility bridge enabling organizations to run RHEL-certified software on Rocky Linux without requalification. CIQ Bridge closes the gap between upstream Rocky Linux and certified enterprise software ecosystems, and provides a migration path from CentOS 7.
A searchable catalog of software and hardware verified compatible with CIQ's product portfolio. C3 gives architects and procurement teams a trusted reference for validated integrations, reducing evaluation risk when building on the CIQ stack.
The central hub for CIQ product access. Organizations use the CIQ Portal to manage licenses, download ISOs and installers, access documentation, and evaluate products before purchase, from a developer license to an enterprise trial to full production deployment.
Installation guides, configuration references, and release notes for every CIQ product, including FIPS certification status for RLC Pro. The canonical source engineers reach for once a product is deployed.
Troubleshooting articles, how-tos, and known-issue write-ups from CIQ's support engineers. Searchable answers to the questions customers actually open tickets about.