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If you’re a Rocky Linux superfan, or you have one on your holiday gift list, you obviously need cool Rocky swag, so we’re excited to announce the official Rocky Linux store, provided by Muckles’ Ink. Not only can you find a wide assortment of quality merchandise, but you will also support the Rocky Enterprise Software…
Pulling together proven technology and the latest innovations, CIQ has created a turnkey solution with a traditional high performance computing (HPC) stack that meets the needs of a large variety of users. Easy to deploy, highly scalable, and very flexible, this infrastructure substrate provides a stable, secure, and supported foundation, empowering users to build the…
We’re very excited to welcome two new key members to the CIQ team! Justin Burdine has joined CIQ as director of solution engineering. Burdine joins us from Red Hat, where he was senior manager, specialist solution architects. In that role, he managed technical sales and a team of product specialists. Justin has deep experience from…
Open. Libre. Free. This past weekend in Columbus, Ohio, Linux enthusiasts gathered for the 20th anniversary of the Ohio LinuxFest or OLF conference–whose ethos is all about these three words: Open. Libre. Free. The OLF conference started in 2003 as an inter-LUG (Linux User Group) meeting and has steadily grown into the event it is…
Please note that this will work on 4.4, currently in release candidate status. Warewulf 4 introduced compatibility with the OCI container ecosystem, which greatly streamlines the process of defining, importing, and maintaining compute node images compared to other systems–even compared to Warewulf 3! But one aspect of compute node images remains unchanged: they can quickly…
Recently, CIQ participated in the Intro to DevSecOps for Government Systems, a 2-day virtual event + DevSecOps Industry Day from November 29th-December 1st. As part of the event, CIQ’s Paul Nathan and Timothy Serewicz of the Linux Foundation jointly presented The Power of Open Source – Intro to DevSecOps for Government Systems. Here’s a brief…
We had an incredible experience at the SC22 conference in Dallas this month, which attracted nearly 12,000 attendees from around the world. We put together a “Best of SC22” reel that really showcases all of the energy and excitement at the show and in our booth. CIQ joined the 360 other exhibitors on the exhibition…
We’re excited to announce our board of advisors, an exceptional group of professionals featuring veteran open source leaders with deep expertise in IT infrastructure, high performance computing (HPC), open source software, and business strategy. Our advisory board will play a pivotal role in guiding us as we build out the next generation of software infrastructure…
When deploying Warewulf 4, we often encounter expectations that Warewulf should support stateful provisioning. Typically these expectations are born from experience with another system (such as Foreman, XCAT, or even Warewulf 3) that supported writing a provisioned operating system to the local disk of each compute node. Warewulf 4 intentionally omits this kind of stateful…
As the official founding support and services partner for the Rocky Linux project, we are excited to join the Rocky community in announcing the release of Rocky Linux 9.1 for the x86-64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures! Thanks to the entire Rocky Linux developer community for their hard work on this new release. Before getting…
Hyperion Research, a research firm that provides data-driven research, analysis, and recommendations for technologies, applications, and markets in high performance computing and emerging technology areas, recently published a Hyperion Research HPC Market Update report that paints a positive picture of the HPC market. Here are a few key highlights from the report: Total 2022 HPC…
Intellyx, the premier analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, has announced that CIQ has won the 2021 Digital Innovator Award. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the leading edge vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace. To honor these trailblazers, Intellyx…