Red Hat and AMD have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at enhancing AI capabilities and optimizing virtualized infrastructure. The partnership seeks to expand customer options across the hybrid cloud by deploying optimized AI models and modernizing traditional virtual machines more cost-effectively.
Philip Guido, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of AMD, stated, “As enterprise customer workloads grow more diverse and demanding, they require solutions that can scale. By combining Red Hat’s industry-leading open source platforms with world-class AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs, we’re delivering the performance and efficiency customers demand to accelerate AI, virtualization and hybrid-cloud innovation.”
The collaboration focuses on leveraging Red Hat’s open-source solutions alongside AMD’s high-performance computing architectures to support growing workload demands driven by AI. This includes integrating Red Hat OpenShift AI with AMD Instinct GPUs for efficient AI deployment across the hybrid cloud without excessive resource requirements.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on AMD EPYC CPUs is designed to help organizations modernize their systems efficiently. This solution enables enterprises to manage VM workloads with a cloud-native application platform while maintaining a bridge to future innovations in AI.
Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat, emphasized the importance of flexibility in IT environments: “Fully realizing the benefits of AI means that organizations must have the choice and flexibility to optimize their IT footprint for the rigors of scaling demand. Our extended collaboration with AMD expands the spectrum of options for organizations seeking to ready their IT environments for an ever-evolving future.”
The partnership also involves collaborations within the vLLM community to enhance AI inference performance on AMD hardware. This effort aims at improving multi-GPU support and expanding engagement in the vLLM ecosystem through cross-collaboration with other industry leaders like IBM.
