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 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 […]

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ’ Launched

RENO, Nev. — October 8, 2024 — CIQ has announced Rocky Linux from CIQ, intended for organizations that utilize on Rocky Linux and need a validated version for security and compliance . Available today, Rocky Linux from CIQ is identical to the community edition of open source Rocky Linux but adds contractual benefits including verified packages, guaranteed […]

CIQ Launches Ledger Pro for IT Infrastructure Oversight

RENO, Nev. — September 12, 2024 — Businesses aiming to optimize IT system automation with precision and efficiency now have a solution — Ledger Pro, the newest product from CIQ. An all-in-one solution for proactive infrastructure oversight, Ledger Pro is built to help organizations track critical changes, ensure compliance and save time and money on system management, […]

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux

RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of […]

CIQ Announces Rocky Linux Solutions for CentOS Migration on Google Cloud

RENO, Nev.—November 8, 2023— CIQ Inc. today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to help customers accelerate CentOS migrations with new Rocky Linux solutions from CIQ built for Google Cloud. With the upcoming end-of-life of CentOS 7 on June 30, 2024, many are still evaluating the best path forward to secure and operate their Linux […]

Texas Tech HPC Center Chooses CIQ for HPC Infrastructure

RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, has published today a story that shows an HPC infrastructure at Texas Tech University’s High Performance Computing Center (HPCC). “HPC clusters are powerful tools for research and science,” said Gregory Kurtzer, founder and CEO […]

CIQ Bundles OpenRadioss and ParaView on Rocky Linux 9.1 for Computation of Shapes

LAS VEGAS, September 18, 2023 — CIQ announced today at Oracle CloudWorld that it has made a software stack for high-performance computation of shapes available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. This application package — a bundle of OpenRadioss and ParaView on Rocky Linux 9.1 — helps enterprises simulate and visualize complex, non-linear problems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). CIQ […]

The Rocky Linux Ecosystem’s United Front against Cyber Threats: Building Trust within a Zero Trust Environment

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] One of the most popular Linux distributions for the HPC industry is the Rocky Linux operating system, a community-supported, open-source OS that is free of charge and bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rocky is backed by security measures from CIQ, whose founder and CEO, Greg Kurtzer, is the creator of Rocky Linux…