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The modern high performance computing cluster is a conglomeration of hardware and software components integrated to act like a single machine. With literally thousands of components that can all march at different speeds, the probability of integration problems quickly approaches 100%. Cluster building was a dark art gathering of all the components, grabbing available software…
Oracle CloudWorld 2022 (October 17-20, Las Vegas) is just around the corner, bringing together more than 60,000+ members of the Oracle ecosystem! This four-day conference is the industry’s most comprehensive conference for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and cloud applications community, and we’re excited to be a part of it. With over 2,000 sessions, it can be…
There is an updated version of this article, which can be found here. Altair Radioss is now available as an open source project! This is major news for the simulation community with many contributors already onboard with OpenRadioss. Moving into open source can speed collaborative efforts like containerizing the application and testing on a new operating system….
I would rank Altair’s decision to make Radioss available as open source in at least my top 10 events in HPC for 2022. I cannot tell you when I first found out this was going to happen…no, really, I was under NDA. I can say I did not see it coming, and my first thought…
Here’s some great news on the security front: Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, has created a new Research Alliance Program to share vulnerability information prior to public disclosure, and we are thrilled to share that we’re one of the five inaugural members of this growing network. This new intelligence sharing initiative aims to reduce the…
Momentum is building at CIQ! And in that spirit, we’re excited to announce that we’ve signed a Professional Service Partnership Agreement with Mobile Integration Workgroup (MIW) to provide technology and subject matter experts to address the high demand of our growing Enterprise Linux and Cloud solutions. MIW solves technological and operational challenges for clients ranging…
Apptainer 1.1.0 Is Here, with Improved Security and User Experience Here at CIQ, we’re excited to highlight an important announcement from the Apptainer community. Apptainer (formerly Singularity), a Linux Foundation project, announced version 1.1.0 of the most widely used container system for secure, high-performance computing (HPC). Apptainer is an open source project that executes HPC applications at…
Numerous people told me that CIQ and I are perfect fits for each other, yet joining the CIQ team is as much about being in the right place at the right time. I’ve spent a long time working in big silicon feeling like I was mostly swimming upstream against a tide of ‘just push sand’ mantras.
Congratulations! You have just successfully installed the latest version of Rocky Linux on your system. We conducted a short informal survey of typical things that Rocky Linux power users do to personalize their systems right after a fresh install and we’ve collected the list here. Where applicable, we’ve put the list into helpful categories to…
Rocky Linux 9 was recently released with a host of exciting features and support for new architectures. The most buzzworthy tool is Peridot, a completely cloud-native build system for managing and updating Rocky Linux. What this means is that anyone can build, enhance, and reproduce Rocky Linux independently using Peridot; it also means that the…
Image-generating AI models are currently taking the internet by storm, with some of the most popular and well-known of these being part of the DALL·E series of models created by OpenAI. The most advanced of these, DALL·E 2, can generate extremely realistic (or surrealistic) images from simple prompts written in natural language – including, for…
CIQ is the official founding support and services partner for the Rocky Linux project, and we are excited to announce the release of Rocky Linux 8.6. We are thankful to the entire Rocky Linux Community for helping to bring this release to fruition. Rocky Linux 8.6 can be downloaded for various architectures from the project…