Dell and Red Hat forge AI collaboration

Dell Technologies has joined forces with Red Hat to enable open source AI workloads on the Dell PowerEdge platform.

The collaboration will focus on bringing the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, a foundation model platform for enabling users to develop, test and deploy AI and generative AI models, to Dell PowerEdge servers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI combines open source-licensed Granite large language models from IBM Research, InstructLab model alignment tools based on the Large-scale Alignment for Chatbots methodology, and the model development approach of the InstructLab project into a single optimised, bootable Red Hat Enterprise Linux image for individual server deployments.

Through the collaboration, the solution is expected to be available on Dell PowerEdge servers from Q3 2024. This makes Dell PowerEdge servers the first to be validated for the solution.

Red Hat VP and GM for generative AI foundation model platforms Joe Fernandes said the collaboration aims to simplify the AI development experience for users.

“AI by nature requires extensive resources spanning enabled servers, compute power and GPUs,” he said. “As organisations evaluate and implement GenAI 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 GenAI workloads across hybrid cloud environments and propel their business into the future.”

The initiative is aimed at continuously testing and validating hardware solutions, including NVIDIA accelerated computing hardware, to simplify the adoption process for users.

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