RENO, Nev., Oct. 26, 2023 — CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop Rocky Linux, today announced the general availability of its custom deployment consultation services for setup of HPC environments. Tapping the capabilities of Rocky Linux and Mountain, CIQ streamlines the custom deployment process, delivering a highly performant, scalable and secure HPC stack that is easy to maintain and upgrade.

“We’ve recently completed custom deployments of HPC stacks with the University of Montana and Whitman College, among others. In each case we strove to help our clients build the HPC stack they would have built themselves, but didn’t have to,” said Jonathon Anderson, solutions architect manager at CIQ. “CIQ is fully committed to helping others set up their own HPC environment in less time and with greater ease than they might expect. Our goal is to enable organizations to do their best research and innovative development on an HPC platform that they can rely on, easily scale and cost-effectively maintain.”

CIQ’s Unique Approach to HPC Setup Services

CIQ delivers its custom deployment consultation services for HPC setups with several distinct benefits:

• Solutions based on open source: CIQ’s solutions include Rocky Linux, now the world’s most widely adopted Enterprise Linux distribution; Warewulf for managing compute nodes and other clustered resources; Apptainer, containers for HPC; and the Ascender automation platform. Together, these form the market-leading traditional HPC approach for building, managing and running clusters.
• Lifecycle management with Mountain: CIQ offers simplified infrastructure management and enhanced security with its repository of artifacts called Mountain. Mountain provides streamlined access to the growing catalog of CIQ-supported product releases.
• Hardware agnostic: CIQ offers HPC setup services on clients’ existing hardware, regardless of manufacturer, freeing clients to use the hardware of their choice and avoid vendor lock-in. CIQ can also help work with vendors, or as part of an RFP process, to design a system to support clients’ research and development goals.
• No “black box” services: CIQ is open and transparent in its consultative approach so that clients are fully aware of what is being done each step of the way.
• Training for self-sufficiency: In addition to offering enterprise-grade support services for long-term support, CIQ offers in-depth training services to help organizations equip their IT teams for self-sufficiency, if they prefer.

Read the full University of Montana case study here.

Click here to register for the November 8 webinar featuring University of Montana: “Traditional HPC Stack for Advanced Computing.”

To inquire about CIQ’s custom deployment consultation services for setup of HPC stacks, contact [email protected]

About CIQ

CIQ builds secure, reliable, and open infrastructure solutions at scale, with dedicated world-class support for a range of performance intensive computing and enterprise technologies. From the base operating system, through containers, orchestration, provisioning, computing and up to cloud applications, CIQ works with every part of the technology stack enabling organizations to focus on their core competencies, driving business-transforming innovation. CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the creator of the next generation federated computing stack. For more information, please visit ciq.com.

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Source: CIQ