CIQ Announces General Availability of RLC Pro AI, Enterprise Linux Built to Deliver More from Every GPU in Production
Publish Date: 2026-03-12 12:32:00
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RLC Pro AI delivers more AI output per dollar of infrastructure investment, with validated performance gains and use-cases for any organization with AI-based workloads, at any scale, in any environment.
RENO, Nev., March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced the general availability of Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI), an Enterprise Linux distribution purpose-built for AI inference and GPU-accelerated workloads, engineered to deliver more from every GPU in production. RLC Pro AI ships today with PyTorch and the full NVIDIA CUDA and DOCA-OFED stack, with expanded support for additional hardware partners and frameworks on the active roadmap.
AI infrastructure is now core to how enterprises operate. Organizations across every industry are moving GPU-accelerated workloads into production, and the operating system (OS) has become the constraint. The OS underneath AI workloads determines how much performance the hardware actually delivers. For most enterprises, that performance has been left on the table.
RLC Pro AI is purpose-built to maximize that performance, with every layer of the stack validated and pre-configured for AI workloads. The CIQ Linux Kernel (CLK), GPU drivers, libraries and frameworks are tuned and validated together for AI workloads, optimized from bare metal to Kubernetes to sovereign on-premises infrastructure. The result is an Enterprise Linux distribution that runs on the hardware enterprises are buying today, delivers day-one support for current GPU accelerators from NVIDIA and ships production-ready from first boot.
“The OS is where GPU ROI is won or lost, and the industry has ignored it for too long,” said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and founder of Rocky Linux. “Organizations are committing hundreds of millions of dollars to GPU infrastructure and running it on operating systems that were never designed for it. RLC…
