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At ISC 2026, the HPC community knew exactly what to do with Fuzzball on DGX Spark. Our winning submission from Martin O’Reilly at the Alan Turing Institute showed why: simpler compute can help move AI weather workflows from HPC and cloud training to local inference. ciq.com/blog/isc-202...

CIQ's Fuzzball now runs production AI inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark: same environment, same workflows, whether you've got one box or a cluster of thousands of GPUs. No rebuilds when you scale. Read the announcement: buff.ly/b2KUCVg

CIQ's Fuzzball now runs production AI inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark: same environment, same workflows, whether you've got one box or a cluster of thousands of GPUs. No rebuilds when you scale. Read the announcement:

Your container image and the workflow that needs it can live in one file. Define it in a Fuzzball workflow, and Fuzzball builds it, versioned alongside the work that uses it: ciq.com/blog/fuzzbal...

Sovereign AI starts at the infrastructure layer: data, compute, and deployment under your control. At FII Priority Europe, CIQ President Bjorn Hovland made the case for sovereign AI infrastructure from the ground up. Catch the full interview, originally aired on Sky Channel 507: bit.ly/4eK2Q7K

Live in 1 hour at 2PM ET: The AI pilot worked. The infrastructure is what stalled it. Addison Snell brings the data on where enterprise AI really stands. Gregory Kurtzer shows how Fuzzball makes sovereign AI achievable without specialized ops expertise. bit.ly/enterprise-a...

Chef Infra Server reaches EOL (end of life) in November 2026. That turns a free tool into a decision: a commercial platform, an unsupported server, or enterprise Ansible. The three paths and how to weigh them: bit.ly/4w7sSJ0 #Ansible #DevOps

Jonathon Anderson represented CIQ at today's #ISC2026 BoF on the future of open source HPC provisioning, walking through Warewulf v4.6, v4.7, and the v5 roadmap before a great panel Q&A with OpenCHAMI and Confluent: bit.ly/3SGK0XG. Find us at Booth M06 this week!

One hour out: Join the #CIQ team for a live #HPC session on modernizing your on-prem cluster without rebuilding it. 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT bit.ly/hpc-webinar-june #Fuzzball

Happening today at #ISC2026: CIQ's Jonathon Anderson is at the #OpenHPC Birds of a Feather session covering Warewulf v4.6, OpenCHAMI, and the future of open source #HPC provisioning. June 24 | 4 PM CEST | Hall F ciq.com/events/isc-2026

The AI pilot looked great. Then it hit production and stalled. June 25: Intersect360 Research brings the data. CIQ's #GregoryKurtzer shows what infrastructure that actually scales looks like. 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET bit.ly/enterprise-ai-webinar #AI #Fuzzball #CIQ

On June 12, a US export control directive cut off access to Anthropic's top models overnight. No warning. No transition. #GregoryKurtzer has seen this before, and the lesson hasn't changed. Own your inference stack. ciq.com/blog/own-you... #SovereignAI #AIInfrastructure

Rocky Linux is stable, binary compatible, and backed by one of the best communities in open source. CIQ sponsors it and we love it. When production needs more: FIPS, SLAs, LTS pinning, that's what #RLCPro is for: ciq.com/blog/communi... #EnterpriseLinux #RockyLinux

CIQ founder Gregory Kurtzer on Code Story: building #Fuzzball, founding #RockyLinux, the core values mistake almost every tech founder makes, and why the AI era is where #CIQ fits best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUdm...

We're a week out from #ISC2026. The #CIQ team is heading to Hamburg, June 22-26, and our experts will be at the booth ready to talk #HPC, Fuzzball, #RockyLinux, and what modern #opensource infrastructure looks like. If you're attending, come find us! ciq.com/events/isc-2026 #ISCHighPerformance

Last chance to register. Thursday at 2:00 PM ET, the CIQ team is running a live, hands-on #Fuzzball session built for #HPC and research computing environments. No forklift upgrade required. Bring your questions. Register now: bit.ly/hpc-webinar-... #ResearchComputing #Containers #OpenSource #CIQ

Our #DevRel, Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks, is giving a talk this evening on the /dev/random track titled "Learn to Play Tabletop Roll Playing Games" at #SELF2026! Don't miss it!

On June 25, Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research and CIQ CEO Gregory Kurtzer address where enterprise AI adoption stands, where organizations consistently get stuck, and what intelligent infrastructure abstraction makes possible. Register: bit.ly/4eB5qho

Research teams now run the same Fuzzball workflow on AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, CoreWeave, Azure, and on-prem. Unmodified. Fuzzball 4.0: Native parallel file system integration. Built-in object cache and container registry. One platform: bit.ly/4v7yH9t

5% GPU utilization. Rising compute costs. The AI era is an infrastructure problem. CIQ's Greg Kurtzer on what closing that gap actually requires: bit.ly/4vESYD5 #AI #HPC #EnterpriseLinux #RockyLinux

Before Rocky Linux, there was CentOS. Greg Kurtzer tells The Register the full origin story, from a biochemist buying hardware at Fry's to the OS that became the enterprise world's default. bit.ly/4vBlHZs #RockyLinux #CentOS #OpenSource

We had 4 NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nanos to give away at Open Source Summit. Instead of a raffle, we asked: what would you build? The answers were worth hearing. bit.ly/oss-2026-giv... #RockyLinux #OpenSource

Three critical kernel CVEs in three weeks. Zero customers who had to chase a status update. Here is what that looks like from the inside: bit.ly/4epFK7h #EnterpriseLinux #RockyLinux #CyberSecurity

Not all Enterprise Linux is built the same. Which RLC Pro variant fits your infrastructure? Eric Hendricks breaks down RLC Pro AI vs RLC Pro Hardened: bit.ly/4o7Om5P #EnterpriseLinux #AI #RockyLinux #CIQ

You do not need to tear down your HPC cluster to modernize it. Join CIQ on June 18 for a live session on running containerized HPC on the infrastructure you already have. June 18 | 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT bit.ly/hpc-webinar-june #HPC #Fuzzball #CIQ

Five clouds used to mean five deployment pipelines and five IAM models. Not anymore. Fuzzball now supports CoreWeave, AWS, GCP, OCI, and Azure from one control plane. Define once, run anywhere: bit.ly/49FlCvi #HPC #AI #MultiCloud #Fuzzball

Your HPC workflow shouldn't care what cloud it runs on. With Fuzzball on Azure, now it doesn't. Chris Wolford breaks down what native Microsoft Azure support means for multi-cloud HPC: bit.ly/3RIuVo8 #HPC #MultiCloud #Azure #Fuzzball

Your Secure Boot certificate is not expiring in June. Microsoft is rotating the UEFI CA signing key; compliance scanners are alarmed, existing systems are fine. Cloud VMs and TPM disk encryption are the exceptions worth reading about: bit.ly/4fnmacT #LinuxSecurity #RockyLinux #CIQ

Futurum Group analyst Alastair Cooke examines CIQ's federal compliance platform and what it takes to deliver real cryptographic validation at Enterprise Linux scale: bit.ly/4o6AV6m #EnterpriseLinux #FIPS #PostQuantum

RLC Pro is ready when you are. LTS, FIPS 140-3, GPU drivers, and a kernel team that picks up the phone. Start at portal.ciq.com #EnterpriseLinux #RLCPro #RockyLinux #CIQ

The RelEng team has been working crazy hours, but now the latest release of Rocky Linux (10.2) is available for you to download!

Three critical Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities in three weeks. Each time, CIQ had a KB article and patched kernels out the same day disclosure hit. That is what RLC Pro support actually looks like. Full story: bit.ly/4dT9kRp #EnterpriseLinux #RLCPro #CIQ

A local privilege escalation hiding in the Linux kernel since 2007. An AI found it. CIFSwitch is a trust-boundary violation in the CIFS client, mitigations available today without a reboot. Full breakdown: bit.ly/4u89kTJ #LinuxSecurity #RockyLinux #CIQ

The CIQ team spent three days at #OSSummit talking Rocky Linux and running live demos. Full trip report is up. bit.ly/oss-2026-recap #RockyLinux #OpenSource #CIQ

Starting in one hour! CIQ on FIPS 140-2, CMMC Level 2, and what DoD contractors need to do before September 21. Join us at 2 PM ET: bit.ly/fips-webinar #FIPS #CMMC #Compliance

Our friends over at Rocky Linux have been hard at work! Rocky Linux 9.8 is officially live! Go check it out:

Your enterprise AI contract says your data is protected. Your regulator may disagree. Brian Dawson breaks down the three exposures hiding in commercial AI API contracts most legal teams miss: bit.ly/4vc64Yf #AI #SovereignAI #DataSovereignty #Fuzzball

DevOps Days Kansas City kicks off today and CIQ's own Eric Hendricks is in the building. If you're at the event, go say hello. If you're not, there's still time to register. May 28-29 | Kansas City, MO bit.ly/devopsdays-kc-2026 #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysKC #DevOps #Linux #OpenSource #CIQ

A point release that ships in May can invalidate the performance profile your team certified in March. For trading infrastructure that means weeks of re-validation. Here is what those teams actually need from Enterprise Linux: bit.ly/3Q6cR6O #EnterpriseLinux #RLCPro #CIQ

Tomorrow at 2 PM ET: CIQ walks DoD contractors through the FIPS 140-2 sunset and what it means for CMMC Level 2. Register: bit.ly/fips-webinar #FIPS #CMMC #Compliance

OS hardening is necessary. It is also incomplete. Firmware vulnerabilities live beneath what standard scanning tools can reach. CIQ is closing that gap with a new Binarly partnership: bit.ly/42T9aV1 #EnterpriseLinux #SupplyChainSecurity #FIPS

We’ve partnered with Binarly to bring firmware and binary-level security to Enterprise Linux, the layer that OS hardening alone can’t reach. Read more: bit.ly/4fIKea7

September 21 is a compliance threshold for DoD contractors, not just a calendar date. Join CIQ on May 28 to understand your FIPS 140-2 exposure before the deadline hits: bit.ly/fips-webinar #FIPS #CMMC #Compliance

Four federal encryption deadlines land between September 2026 and January 2027. US-based DoD contractors are most exposed. Our webinar May 28 (2pm ET) is where to start: bit.ly/fips-webinar

Your evals passed. Without being detected, the model’s behavior changed. Behavioral drift shifts model tone, reasoning depth, refusal sensitivity, and output format without breaking a single correctness eval. Post 2 of our Sovereign AI series: bit.ly/42NCuvZ

Running Ollama in CPU mode is like driving with the parking brake on. RLC+ ships with NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, and the RDMA stack pre-integrated at no cost. Four steps from zero to GPU-ready. Here is why it matters: bit.ly/4wCZ8oD #RockyLinux #RLCPlus #CIQ

RLC+ is free and ready the moment you create an account. Want to try something from the enterprise side? 30-day trials are right there too. No forms, no waiting. Just go see what fits. portal.ciq.com #RockyLinux #Linux #CIQ

Day 1 at #OSSummit. The CIQ team is on the floor in Minneapolis. Come find us at Booth 15. Rocky Linux swag and good conversation await. bit.ly/oss-na-2026 #RockyLinux #OpenSource #CIQ

Three page-cache privilege escalations in three weeks. On Fragnesia, CIQ did not just patch what researchers found -- a CIQ kernel engineer audited the stack, found another vulnerable path, and contributed the fix upstream the same day. Full story: bit.ly/3R2jkQB #LinuxSecurity #RockyLinux