Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to align enterprise open source technologies to enterprise AI evolution and rack-scale AI advances.
As the industry moves beyond individual servers toward unified, high-density systems, Red Hat aims to deliver the starting point for this transformation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA, a specialized edition of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform that is optimized for the NVIDIA Rubin platform and tuned to drive future production on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI, the company said.
"NVIDIA's architectural breakthroughs have made AI an imperative, proving that the computing stack will define the industry’s future,” said Matt Hicks, president and CEO, Red Hat. “To meet these tectonic shifts at launch, Red Hat and NVIDIA aim to provide Day 0 support for the latest NVIDIA architectures across Red Hat’s hybrid cloud and AI portfolios. Together, we are fueling the next generation of enterprise AI through the power of open source.”
The NVIDIA Rubin platform, featuring the new NVIDIA Vera CPU and advanced NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, is designed to deliver a giant leap forward in intelligence for agentic AI and advanced reasoning. With Red Hat optimizing its hybrid cloud portfolio for NVIDIA’s breakthroughs, starting with Day 0 support for this new platform, Red Hat intends to empower organizations to scale their AI initiatives more confidently, with enterprise-grade reliability and a consistent operational model across the hybrid cloud.
"Red Hat revolutionized enterprise computing with industrial-strength open-source software,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “In the age of AI, the entire computing stack—from chips and systems to middleware, models, and the AI lifecycle—is being reinvented from the ground up. Together, NVIDIA and Red Hat are industrializing open source to bring AI to the enterprise, starting with the Vera Rubin platform."
The NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform introduces transformative innovations, including the Vera CPU, the most power-efficient CPU for gigascale AI factories, the BlueField-4 data processor, as well as the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale solution.
Additionally, Red Hat is announcing its intention to deliver Day 0 support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform across the Red Hat AI portfolio, encompassing:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux serves as a bridge between this advanced hardware and the complex software ecosystems required for modern AI.
- Red Hat OpenShift provides NVIDIA Rubin platform customers with ready access to the industry’s leading enterprise hybrid cloud platform powered by Kubernetes.
- Red Hat AI, Red Hat’s production-ready enterprise AI platform, will add new integrations with NVIDIA, expanding support for distributed inference with NVIDIA’s open source models on Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, and Red Hat OpenShift AI.
Red Hat is introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA, a new edition of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform that incorporates the latest NVIDIA platform advancements at launch.
In collaboration with NVIDIA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA will support the platform features of the latest NVIDIA architectures on Day 0 of availability, starting with the NVIDIA Rubin platform.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA remains fully aligned with the main build of the operating system. As improvements from Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA make their way into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers will be able to easily transition to the traditional Red Hat Enterprise Linux as their specific production demands require with the confidence that production systems will maintain expected performance levels and application compatibility.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux support for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform will coincide with its general availability in the second half of 2026.
Customers will be able to access the latest drivers and integration tools through the Red Hat Customer Portal.
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