Planning to attend the 2024 Red Hat Summit, May 6-9, in Denver, CO? Topics related to Red Hat Research, the MOC Alliance, New England Research Cloud, and the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University will be featured in several presentations on popular subjects like data analytics, AI and machine learning, edge devices, and RISC-V. Click on a presentation title to add it to your schedule. Not going to Summit this year? Check out related reading from RHRQ and our website, set a reminder to watch any or all of the keynote livestreams on Red Hat’s YouTube Streams page, and come back for pos ..read more

PhD interns at Red Hat Research’s partner universities play a pivotal role in bringing together the cutting-edge thinking of research institutions with the real-world expertise of industry. The PhD program enables long-term research partnerships that provide greater potential for projects that have a significant impact on the open source ecosystem and improve our engineering solutions. This month, we highlight the work of Eric Munson, a software engineering research intern and PhD student at Boston University planning to defend his dissertation in mid-2025. His work with Red Hat Research has f ..read more

By José Bolina Building distributed systems is complex work, but strong primitives with well-defined guarantees and an expected behavior can make it easier. With stronger guarantees in primitives come strong safety and correctness verification requirements. In some cases, applications are dependent on these guarantees to work, for instance, a strongly consistent distributed database deployed across regions or a key-value store for cluster metadata. In such scenarios, the system provides clients with the most recent written value regardless of which client is requesting. Testing and verificatio ..read more

By Joel Savitz The operating system is at the center of open source innovation, but a surprising number of college students lack exposure to this domain and, in particular, lack comfort with the Linux kernel. As a result, there’s an industry-wide shortage of qualified entry-level candidates for systems programming and operating system engineering roles.  Enter the Kernel Development Learning Pipeline (KDLP) program, created and run by Red Hat engineers and open to everyone. KDLP aims to bridge the gap between beginner resources and advanced documentation to make the industry-standard Linu ..read more

By Ahmed Sanaullah In 2023, Red Hat Research announced the launch of the Co-Design (CoDes) research lab during the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance Workshop. Our goal was to build an ecosystem that could deliver on the immense value proposition of non-traditional hardware. Non-traditional hardware here refers to both specialized hardware (e.g., Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits) and atypical configurations of typically general-purpose hardware, such as microcontrollers, single-board computers, emerging CPU microarchitectures, and application-spe ..read more

As part of a pilot initiative at the Open Source Technology Lab (OSTL), Red Hat, UMass Lowell, and Intel announced the outcome of a collaboration to showcase the readiness to deploy vRAN workloads at scale, from both a COTS hardware and open container standard software perspective. The demonstration was conducted through an independent third party, adding credibility and objectivity to the validation process. The demonstration used the Dell 16G XR5610 and Dell XR8000 platforms, powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel vRAN Boost®, along with Red Hat OpenShift® Container P ..read more

The MOC Alliance annual workshop will be held February 28-29, 2024 at the George Sherman Union, 774 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. The MOC Alliance provides a structure for a set of interrelated projects that have grown up around the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). These projects include production cloud services (NERC, NESE, OSN) for domain researchers operated and facilitated by university research IT, a national testbed for cloud research (OCT), projects to enable scientific and medical researchers (Biogrids, ChRiS), and projects to enga ..read more

Red Hat Research is delighted by the potential for new opportunities suggested by the launch of the AI Alliance, which brings leading organizations across industry, academia, research, and government together to foster an open community. Through its partnership with the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance, Red Hat Research supports open source production cloud services for AI researchers and developers. According to MOC Alliance director Orran Krieger, the MOC’s production cloud platform is “an exciting match for the AI Alliance’s mission of advancing open, transparent AI.” IBM and Meta launched th ..read more

By Vašek Šraier Vašek Šraier is a software engineer at Guardsquare working on the security analysis tool AppSweep. He completed his Master’s thesis, “Performance of Open vSwitch-based Kubernetes Cluster in Pathological Cases,” at Charles University in Prague under the supervision of Jiri Benc, Principal Kernel Engineer, Red Hat Czech. For over a decade, Red Hat Czech has actively collaborated with students in the Czech Republic on research, leading to more than 400 theses. While working on my Master’s thesis as a research intern at Red Hat, I investigated networking performance problems in Ope ..read more

AI technology is developing so quickly that by the time an enterprise implements a solution, it can easily be out of date. How do you know whether you’re pursuing a sound long-term strategy or just chasing the next shiny thing? In addition, the massive scale of AI workloads costs a lot of time and money, and the complexity of AI confuses many of the users who could benefit from it most. The barriers to full-scale adoption are formidable—but not insurmountable.  To learn why, check out the recording of “AI Product Strategies and Research Topics,” where Sherard Griffin, Red Hat Senior ..read more