RENO, Nev., – December 4, 2025 – CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced that Fuzzball, its container orchestration platform, now integrates with PBS Professional and Slurm workload managers as backend provisioners. This integration enables organizations running traditional HPC clusters to adopt Fuzzball’s modern container orchestration and […]
CIQ: Rocky Linux Is Authorized Linux Distribution for NVIDIA AI Stack
RENO, Nev., Nov. 06, 2025 – CIQ today announced expanded capabilities, adding NVIDIA DOCA OFED support to Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) alongside the previously announced NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit integration. CIQ said this makes RLC the first Linux distribution licensed to deliver the NVIDIA AI and networking software stack, including CUDA Toolkit and DOCA OFED, ready to […]
FYR Integrates CIQ Fuzzball for Precision Medicine
RENO, Nev., Oct. 9, 2025 — CIQ, Rocky Linux partner and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced that FYR, a precision medicine tools company, has selected Fuzzball, CIQ’s computing platform, to power its analytics workflows. FYR utilizes AI-enabled multiomic insights through its EV-Omics (EVO) platform to research disease mechanisms. By identifying RNA and protein biomarkers from EVs […]
‘Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened’ Available on Public Cloud Marketplaces
RENO, Nev. – August 26, 2025 – CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced that Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (RLC-H) is now available on three major cloud marketplaces: AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform. This hardened Enterprise Linux offering enables organizations to deploy proactively secured, compliant systems while maintaining […]
Apple and Claris Veteran Nelson Named CIQ CTO
CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced the appointment of Peter Nelson as chief technology officer. CIQ said Nelson brings over two decades of product and engineering leadership, most recently serving as vice president of engineering at Apple’s Claris organization and as chief product officer at Bowers & Wilkins.
Apple and Claris Veteran Nelson Named CIQ CTO
RENO, Nev. – July 24, 2025 – CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced the appointment of Peter Nelson as chief technology officer. CIQ said Nelson brings over two decades of product and engineering leadership, most recently serving as vice president of engineering at Apple’s Claris organization and as chief product officer […]
CIQ Fuzzball Federation Capabilities for Deployment of AI and HPC Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers
March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. – CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in their Fuzzball performance-intensive computing platform. This release is designed to allow engineering teams and business analysts to easily connect, manage and share compute resources for all performance-intensive workloads (HPC and AI) for global deployments across different sites, and across hybrid/on-premises […]
CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux
RENO, Nev—March 11, 2025— Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security requirements, such as stronger password policies, memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking and SSH restrictions. The product delivers Rocky Linux via […]
CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux
RENO, Nev—March 11, 2025— Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security requirements, such as stronger password policies, memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking and SSH restrictions. The product delivers Rocky Linux via […]
CIQ Demos Preview of ‘Fuzzball Federate’ to Streamline HPC Workflows
ATLANTA — November 18, 2024 — SC24 — As high performance computing teams move more workloads to cloud-native environments to take advantage of scale and agility, orchestration of jobs across on-premises and cloud environments slows progress. CIQ Fuzzball Federate, unveiled today in early access at SC24, addresses these challenges and enables researchers to use a comprehensive management […]







