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Categories/DevOps & CI/CD/CIQ
CIQ

CIQ

Founded 2020

Deploy and manage enterprise Rocky Linux, HPC clusters, and AI workloads

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

You can use CIQ to manage enterprise Linux environments and deploy high-performance computing clusters for AI applications. It offers commercial support and hardened packages for Rocky Linux, including long-term security updates, bug fixes, and FIPS validation. CIQ simplifies cluster provisioning using Warewulf and automates IT orchestration with Ascender and Fuzzball. You can also run pre-configured graphics driver stacks for NVIDIA and AMD hardware, letting teams configure bare metal servers and execute distributed machine learning workloads without compatibility issues.

What CIQ does

Provision bare metal cluster nodes using stateless imagesDeploy pre-configured NVIDIA and AMD GPU driversRun secure containerized HPC and AI workloadsApply FIPS 140-3 validated security baselines to Linux serversAutomate repetitive system administration tasks across server fleetsOrchestrate distributed computing jobs across hybrid infrastructurePre-integrated NVIDIA CUDA, DOCA-OFED, and AMD ROCm GPU driversStateless cluster node provisioning with Warewulf ProCommercial long-term support and bug fixes for Rocky LinuxFIPS 140-3 cryptography validation and pre-hardened compliance imagesCross-cloud and on-premises AI orchestration with FuzzballAutomated IT infrastructure workflows with Ascender ProContainer security and isolation via Apptainer Pro

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price
RLC+Free
RLC Pro — Self Support (per node) (annual billing)$350 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro — Standard Support (per node) (annual billing)$600 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro — Premium Support (per node) (annual billing)$825 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro Hardened — Standard Support (per node) (annual billing)$775 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro Hardened — Premium Support (per node) (annual billing)$1,000 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro AI — Standard Support (per node) (annual billing)$775 / mo, billed annually
RLC Pro AI — Premium Support (per node) (annual billing)$1,000 / mo, billed annually
Warewulf Pro — Standard Support (per node) (annual billing)$250 / mo, billed annually
Warewulf Pro — Premium Support (per node) (annual billing)$400 / mo, billed annually
Ascender Pro — Standard Support (per node) (annual billing)$100 / mo, billed annually
Ascender Pro — Premium Support (per node) (annual billing)$150 / mo, billed annually

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CIQ, Rocky Linux, RLC Pro, Warewulf, Fuzzball, Apptainer, Ascender Pro, Enterprise Linux, HPC orchestration, bare metal provisioning, GPU computing, CUDA, ROCm, Linux kernel, cluster management