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As organizations scale their use of Enterprise Linux for AI, high-performance computing, and production infrastructure, managing software deployments, credentials, and team permissions from a central…
Your Ansible automation runs your company. What happens when it breaks at 2 AM and there's no one to call?
Many organizations start with command-line Ansible or upstream AWX. It works, until it doesn't. There's no audit trail for compliance. And when critical automation fails, you're on your own. Ascender…
NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0 can 7x your inference performance. Your OS determines whether you get there.
On March 16, NVIDIA announced Dynamo 1.0. This production-grade, open-source platform functions as the operating system for AI factories, orchestrating GPU and memory resources across clusters to…
Extend GPU hardware life with RLC Pro AI.
The GPU cluster your organization purchased in 2023 sits on the books through 2027 or 2028. The AI software frameworks that determine what those GPUs can actually run have already cycled through…
Tokens per watt is the new CEO metric. Here's where your OS fits.
Tokens per watt is a new AI efficiency metric, and at GTC 2026, Jensen Huang introduced it as a new method of measuring the value of AI infrastructure. Huang’s framing is simple and pointed: data…
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NVIDIA just called the inference era. We built the OS for it.
This week at GTC 2026, Jensen Huang made a statement in front of 30,000 developers in San Jose that many infrastructure teams have already been experiencing in the trenches: training is no longer the…
How to migrate from RHEL to RLC Pro without re-architecting
Migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) is straightforward and convenient. RLC Pro delivers production-ready Enterprise Linux binary compatibility. This…
CIQ at SCaLE 23x trip report
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA Sunshine, warm weather, and community! SCaLE 23x was everything we had been told to expect, and it delivered. Described by multiple attendees as one of…
Fuzzball v3.2: Quick jobs, better visibility, and self-service passwords
Fuzzball v3.2 is out! This release is mostly about usability — specifically, things that were technically possible but involved more friction than they should have. For example: running a quick one…
RLC Pro AI: The Enterprise Linux built to maximize your AI infrastructure
The OS layer is where AI performance is won or lost RLC Pro AI extends RLC Pro (CIQ's commercially supported Rocky Linux) with additions such as the CIQ Linux Kernel and a pre-validated NVIDIA stack…
Configuring software RAID in Warewulf nodes for high-performance computing
Five drives installed on a Warewulf compute node and left idle represent wasted capability for every job. This guide shows how to configure Warewulf to assemble them into a software RAID (Redundant…
Mastering nested loops in Ansible
You need to loop over users AND groups. You try two loop: keywords. Ansible says no. Ansible doesn't support nested loops directly. You can't put two loop: statements on a single task. But you can…