Red Hat has announced a collaboration with Lenovo to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers. With this collaboration, RHEL AI is validated to support SR675 V3 servers and will be factory pre-loaded for customers to more easily develop, test and run artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) models on a trusted foundation model platform, built on an AI-optimised operating system.
While gen AI poses a significant opportunity for organisations to speed up innovation, AI workloads require a combination of high performance servers and flexible software that can support these intensive compute and processing demands while also streamlining AI model training and fine tuning. By enabling Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers with the power of RHEL AI, Red Hat and Lenovo deliver optimised performance for AI computing using built-in GPU processing power, helping customers more quickly and seamlessly put AI initiatives into production.
Joe Fernandes, vice president and general manager, AI Business Unit, Red Hat said, “For enterprises to take full advantage of AI’s rapid evolutionary pace, they need greater levels of agility and efficiency to both identify and implement AI strategies successfully. Through our collaboration with Lenovo, Red Hat is making it easier for customers to seise the AI opportunity by combining the power of RHEL AI with Lenovo’s industry leading servers, helping customers build, deploy and run AI workloads from the datacenter, to the cloud and out to the edge.”
RHEL AI is a foundation model platform that brings together the Granite family of open source-licensed large language models (LLMs) from IBM Research with InstructLab model alignment tools for a community-driven approach to model development. The solution is packaged as an optimised, bootable Red Hat Enterprise Linux image for portability across hybrid cloud environments 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.
Brian Connors, vice president and general manager, ESMB & AI Business Segment, Lenovo said, “Our collaboration with Red Hat is a powerful force driving innovation in AI. By combining Lenovo’s industry-leading hardware with Red Hat’s cutting-edge software, we are delivering comprehensive solutions that empower businesses to harness the full potential of these transformative technologies. Leveraging Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI on Lenovo enterprise AI ThinkSystem servers, organisations can streamline their AI workflows achieving faster time-to-value.”
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