RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened: Which variant fits your needs
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I put this together for the CIQ blog because once people decide to go the RLC route, they hit a second question: which RLC Pro variant do I actually need? Both share the same Enterprise Linux base, but RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened point in very different directions. I wanted to lay out the difference plainly so the choice is easy.
Originally published on CIQ Read the full article →A few things I wanted people to walk away with:
- RLC Pro AI is for GPU-accelerated work. It ships with NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers, CUDA, DOCA-OFED, and PyTorch preinstalled and tuned, with the goal of getting from install to first inference in under four minutes.
- RLC Pro Hardened is for regulated industries. If you are in finance, defense, or healthcare and need DISA STIG and CIS compliance out of the box, plus Linux Kernel Runtime Guard and hardened packages, that is the variant I would point you to.
- Both give you four years of vendor support. Each one includes CIQ support through the portal and up to four years of updates even on minor versions, so you are not stuck chasing a short community window.
If you are weighing the two, start from the workload: performant AI infra points to RLC Pro AI, strict audits point to RLC Pro Hardened.