CIQ: Cloud Native, Federated High-Performance Computing Platform

An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief

CIQ offers a high-performance hybrid multi-cloud clustering technology that follows cloud native principles while offering better performance than Kubernetes can on its own.

CIQ manages the open source Rocky Linux distribution, a drop-in replacement for the now-discontinued CentOS Linux. The company includes Rocky Linux in its high-performance computing (HPC) platform.

Traditional HPC leverages the Beowulf architecture for building parallel computing clusters using on-premises LANs. CIQ has reinvented this architecture for the cloud – or in reality, multiple clouds as well as on-premises deployments.

CIQ leverages Kubernetes to support management of its HPC platform, while empowering high-performance clusters that can run in multiple IaaS regions as well as bare-metal environments for the best performance.

Traditional HPC focuses on research and scientific use cases like genomics research and seismology. Today, however, enterprises leverage HPC for a broad range of AI-centric use cases as well, expanding the HPC addressable market substantially. CIQ is taking advantage of this exploding interest in HPC.

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