Upgrade, update, or migration? Why getting it wrong wrecks your timeline
A conversion and a rebuild are different projects. Know which one you're planning.
Removing roadblocks to discovery: David Godlove’s path from neuroscience to Fuzzball
Meet David Godlove and see how his path through neuroscience, NIH HPC, and Singularity/Apptainer helps CIQ make Fuzzball more accessible to researchers.
Who actually decides what lands on your Linux servers
Frontier Linux moves fast. Legacy Enterprise Linux moves on the vendor's schedule. Enterprise Linux Manager gives the decision back to your team.
Fuzzball v4.3: your GPUs serve a model in one command
One command serves a Hugging Face model from a replica pool on your own GPUs. 11 validated presets, autoscaled endpoints, persistent local volumes.
SingularityCE reaches end of life. Apptainer carries on
Sylabs ends SingularityCE, SingularityPRO, and Singularity Enterprise on October 25, 2026. Apptainer, formerly Singularity, carries on.
CIQ’s Fuzzball 4.3 runs validated open-weight models on a customer’s own GPUs with one command
Open models deploy from a catalog with validated presets, and in-cluster agents discover them automatically, across heterogeneous GPU fleets on-premises and in major clouds. RENO, Nev., October 8,…
CIQ announces Apptainer Pro for production AI and HPC containers with enterprise control
Long-term support, preflight compatibility checks, execution records and cluster image distribution give platform teams a supported path from the open source Apptainer runtime to production. RENO,…
Bring your lifecycle workflow to RLC Pro with CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager
Migrating to RLC Pro? CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager mirrors content, curates views, rolls back, and provisions hosts from one control plane.
CIQ challenges 20 teams to scale real AI across a full cluster before SC26
Teams will use Lenovo ThinkStation PGX systems powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, orchestrated by CIQ Fuzzball, to train, serve, and benchmark AI workloads in Chicago from November…
Here's WALDO: AI's first open source project and community
For information on OpenWALDO and the open source community check out: https://openwaldo.org/
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.
Browse by product
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.