CIQ's RLC Pro AI Loads Models 18% Faster Than Ubuntu 24.04 HWE
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Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ says Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI) deploys a GPU node in 3 minutes 44 seconds on the happy path and delivered 18% more model-loading throughput than Ubuntu 24.04 with the HWE kernel. The company presented the results at AI Infrastructure Field Day.
RLC Pro AI ships CUDA, NVIDIA drivers and tested frameworks inside the OS
The Enterprise Linux distribution bundles CUDA, the NVIDIA drivers, and frameworks such as PyTorch and Ollama, all tested together. On other distributions, CIQ says, a new GPU node means finding the right driver, compiling kernel modules, adjusting boot parameters and rebooting before a matching framework can be installed.