Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux that delivers a streamlined experience so customers can Easily access and install leading AI accelerators from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA. With this update, the system is robust to power AI workloads, allowing IT teams to unlock critical hardware and software capabilities that have been validated for interoperability, reducing bottlenecks and accelerating the AI/ML lifecycle, as explained by Gunnar Hellekson, vice president and general manager of Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
“As the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the foundation infrastructure for thousands of market-leading organizations globally. With the rise of AI, organizations need to move faster than ever to take their businesses into the future, so we are excited to expand our collaboration with AMD, Intel and NVIDIA to deliver a more streamlined experience for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers, unlocking validated AI accelerators for smoother innovation, faster deployments and easier AI scalability..
Red Hat Enterprise Linux acts as the reliable foundation for Red Hat’s broad portfolio of open hybrid cloud, automation and AI solutions, certified on hundreds of clouds and with thousands of hardware and software vendors. In a dynamic AI landscape, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers the flexibility and scalability organizations need to achieve rapid development and respond to increased demand.
However, obtaining and installing the driver updates necessary to power AI accelerators often can cause unwanted downtime in production environmentsleading to long problem-solving cycles and lost revenue streams.
Red Hat addresses this challenge facilitating access to drivers and latest userspace components for AI accelerators from AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA, directly through the Red Hat repositories. This gives organizations greater confidence and assurance that drivers have been validated by Red Hat partners to work more seamlessly with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be installed quickly to bring AI models and applications to production more quickly.
The following drivers and software development toolkits They are now available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extensions Repository, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplemental Repository, and BaseOS:
- AMD GPU Kernel Mode Driver and AMD ROCm
- Kernel mode driver for Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
- NVIDIA GPU OpenRM kernel mode controller
- NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
By making it easier to acquire, deploy, and maintain production-ready AI acceleration software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux aims to maintain its leading position by reinventing the role of operating systems. More information | Red Hat Enterprise Linux extensions repository.
