“NVIDIA’s architectural advancements have made AI a necessity, demonstrating that the compute stack will define the future of the industry,” said Matt Hicks, president and CEO of Red Hat. “To address these significant changes from 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 driving the next generation of enterprise AI through the power of open source.” “Red Hat revolutionized enterprise computing with high-performance open source software,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “In the age of AI, the entire compute stack—from chips and systems to middleware, AI 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.”.
With 2026 approaching, many organizations are preparing to migrate AI from experimentation to production, employing hierarchical strategies and centralized AI tools that incorporate AI agents and other advancements. However, this transition requires a more stable, high-performance, and secure infrastructure stack, from the underlying architecture to the software running on it.
The NVIDIA Rubin platform, featuring the new NVIDIA Vera CPU and advanced NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, is designed to deliver a giant leap in intelligence for agentic AI and advanced reasoning. By optimizing its hybrid cloud portfolio for NVIDIA's advancements, starting with Day 0 support for this new platform, Red Hat intends to empower organizations to scale their AI initiatives with greater confidence, enterprise-grade reliability, and a consistent operating model across the hybrid cloud.
data processor BlueField-4 , and the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale solution.
Red Hat announces its intention to provide Day 0 support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform across the entire Red Hat AI portfolio, including:
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux acts as a bridge between this advanced hardware and the complex software ecosystems required for modern AI. As a core component of Red Hat’s robust hybrid cloud solutions portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will introduce support for NVIDIA Confidential Computing throughout the AI lifecycle, offering enhanced security features for GPUs, memory, and model data, as well as providing organizations with cryptographic verification that their most sensitive AI workloads maintain comprehensive protections.
● Red Hat OpenShift gives NVIDIA Rubin platform customers immediate access to the industry-leading, Kubernetes-based enterprise hybrid cloud platform. To automate the deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of accelerated computing, Red Hat OpenShift adds support for NVIDIA infrastructure software and NVIDIA CUDA X libraries, delivering optimized performance for a wide range of accelerated workloads. Additionally, support for NVIDIA BlueField provides enhanced networking, advanced cluster management, and improved resource utilization through a more consistent enterprise operating experience.
Red Hat AI, Red Hat’s production-ready enterprise AI platform, will include new integrations with NVIDIA, expanding support for distributed inference with NVIDIA’s open-source models across Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, and Red Hat OpenShift AI. This includes joint efforts by Red Hat and NVIDIA to extend support beyond the NVIDIA Nemotron family to other NVIDIA open-source models, including those targeting computer vision, robotics, and specific vertical markets.
AI innovations delivered by the world's leading enterprise Linux platform since Day 0. 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 advancements from the NVIDIA platform since launch.
In collaboration with NVIDIA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA will offer support for the latest NVIDIA architecture features on day zero availability, starting with the NVIDIA Rubin platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA remains aligned with the major operating system release. As enhancements from Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA are rolled out to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers can transition to traditional Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on their specific production needs, confident that production systems will maintain expected performance levels and application compatibility.
