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Dell, Red Hat collaborate on open source

workloads

Sep 9, 2024

Dell Technologies and Red Hat are working together to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation
model platform built on an AI-optimised operating system that enables users to more seamlessly develop, test and
deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) models, to Dell PowerEdge servers.

The collaboration will help organisations more readily implement successful AI and machine learning (AI/ML)
strategies to scale their IT systems and power enterprise applications across their businesses.

RHEL AI brings together open source-licensed Granite large language models (LLMs) from IBM Research,
InstructLab model alignment tools based on the LAB (Large-scale Alignment for chatBots) methodology and a
community-driven approach to model development through the InstructLab project. The solution is packaged as an
optimised, bootable Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) image for individual server deployments across the hybrid
cloud and is included as part of Red Hat OpenShift AI, Red Hat’s hybrid cloud machine learning operations (MLOps)
platform, for running models and InstructLab at scale across distributed cluster environments.

Joe Fernandes, vice-president and GM: GenAI foundation model platforms at Red Hat, says: “AI by nature requires
extensive resources spanning enabled servers, compute power and GPUs. As organizations evaluate and implement
gen AI use cases, it is imperative that they build on a platform that is able to scale with their business while also
providing the agility to experiment and develop AI-driven innovations.

“By collaborating with Dell Technologies to validate and empower RHEL AI on Dell PowerEdge servers, we are
enabling customers with greater confidence and flexibility to harness the power of gen AI workloads across hybrid
cloud environments and propel their business into the future.”

Arun Narayanan, senior vice-president at Dell Technologies, adds: “Validating RHEL AI for AI workloads on Dell
PowerEdge servers provides customers with greater confidence that the servers, GPUs, and foundational platforms
are tested and validated on an ongoing basis. This simplifies the gen AI user experience and accelerates the process
to build and deploy critical AI workloads on a trusted software stack.”

Bob Pette, vice-president: enterprise platforms at Nvidia, comments: “In today’s fast-paced market, it is critical for
organisations to be equipped with validated and trusted AI-enabled solutions to kick-start their gen AI use cases. Red
Hat and Dell will extend gen AI capabilities for customers with an optimized experience for Nvidia accelerated
computing, including Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs, with Dell PowerEdge servers and RHEL AI.”

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