RENO, Nev., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CIQ, the enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux, today announced that Arcee AI, the U.S. model lab behind the Trinity family of models, has selected Fuzzball to support workload orchestration for the development of its next flagship large language model. Arcee will use Fuzzball to coordinate and place selected compute-intensive workloads across heterogeneous infrastructure while continuing to use its internally developed training and inference stack.
Fuzzball provides an orchestration layer for scheduling and coordinating workloads across cloud, GPU-provider, and on-premises environments. Arcee’s model-development systems remain independent of the underlying compute provider, while Fuzzball helps the team manage where and how selected jobs are executed. Arcee retains control of its training and inference software, models, data, and deployment architecture.
“Arcee has built the technical systems required to develop and operate models at significant scale. Fuzzball’s role is to give that team a consistent orchestration layer across different compute environments without requiring its training and inference stack to be rewritten for each provider,” said Bjorn Hovland, President of CIQ.
“We have built our own training and inference stack because control over the full model lifecycle is fundamental to how Arcee operates. Fuzzball gives us an additional orchestration layer for coordinating workloads across heterogeneous compute environments without replacing the systems our team has built,” said Lucas Atkins, Chief Technology Officer of Arcee AI.
Arcee’s selection demonstrates how Fuzzball’s HPC orchestration capabilities can be applied to AI workloads operating across heterogeneous compute environments. Fuzzball coordinates workload execution, while model builders retain their own training, evaluation, and inference systems. Teams with strong internal infrastructure gain a portable orchestration layer without replacing the systems they have already built.
Arcee’s models are designed to be customizable and deployable wherever customers need them, and Fuzzball extends that principle to the layer underneath. Over time, the two companies will collaborate to help enterprises, AI labs, and infrastructure providers deploy models on portable infrastructure they control. Arcee brings model development, adaptation, and the training and inference systems it builds and operates itself. CIQ brings Linux, cluster-management, and workload-orchestration technologies that can help those systems run across a range of compute environments.
The same architecture gives GPU providers a way to move up the value chain, turning raw compute capacity into a differentiated AI platform with multi-tenancy, portability, and lifecycle orchestration.
About Arcee AI
Arcee AI is a U.S. open-model lab that develops open-weight foundation models end to end, including data preparation, architecture, pretraining, post-training, evaluation, and deployment. Its Trinity family ranges from compact models designed for local use to Trinity Large, a 400-billion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model. Arcee builds models that developers, enterprises, and public institutions can run and adapt on infrastructure they control. More information is available at arcee.ai.
About CIQ
CIQ is the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux and a leading provider of Enterprise Linux infrastructure. CIQ delivers commercially supported Linux offerings, high-performance computing solutions, and AI infrastructure to enterprises, government agencies, research institutions and supercomputing centers worldwide. CIQ’s products include the Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC Pro) family of operating systems, Ascender Pro for IT automation, Fuzzball job-based container orchestration, Warewulf cluster provisioning and Apptainer, the leading container system for high-performance computing. For more information, visit ciq.com.
Availability
Fuzzball is available now. Fuzzball deploys to AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave, and Azure, as well as on-premises clusters built with Warewulf, VMware, or bare metal. To get started, contact CIQ at ciq.com/products/fuzzball.
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