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Dell Technologies and Red Hat Announce Collaboration to Fuel Open Source AI
Workloads on Dell PowerEdge and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI

● Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI becomes a preferred platform for AI deployments on Dell
PowerEdge servers

● Dell PowerEdge servers to be the first servers validated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
to help customers more seamlessly develop, test and run large language models (LLMs)
to power enterprise applications

September 9, 2024 – Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, are bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a
foundation model platform built on an AI-optimized operating system that enables users to more
seamlessly develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) models,
to Dell PowerEdge servers. This joint effort establishes RHEL AI as a preferred platform on the
Dell PowerEdge R760xa server.

This collaboration helps organizations more readily implement successful artificial intelligence
and machine learning (AI/ML) strategies to scale their IT systems and power enterprise
applications across their businesses. Dell and Red Hat are providing a more consistent AI
experience on optimized, AI-enabled hardware solutions, all delivered on the trusted platform of
RHEL AI on Dell PowerEdge. This initiative aims to simplify the AI experience for users by
continuously testing and validating hardware solutions, including NVIDIA accelerated computing,
with RHEL AI.

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 optimized, 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.

RHEL AI on Dell PowerEdge servers will be available in Q3 2024. Test drive the solution in Dell
Customer Solution Centers located globally.

Supporting Quotes
Joe Fernandes, vice president and general manager, Generative AI Foundation Model Platforms,
Red Hat
“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