Chapter 1. Installation overview
Chapter 1. Installation overview Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is distributed and installable as a bootable image. This bootable image includes a container that hold various software and tools for RHEL AI. Each image is compiled to support specific hardware vendors. Each RHEL AI image includes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4: A RHEL version 9.4 operating system (OS) for your machine. The InstructLab container: Contains InstructLab and various other tools required for RHEL AI. This includes: Python version 3.11: A Python 3.11 installation used internally by InstructLab. The InstructLab tools: The InstructLab command line interface (CLI). The LAB enhanced method of synthetic data generation (SDG). The LAB enhanced method of multi-phase training. InstructLab with vLLM: A high-input inference and serving engine for Large Language models (LLMs). InstructLab with DeepSpeed: A hardware optimization software that speeds up the training process. Similar functionalities of FSDP. InstructLab with FSDP: A training framework that makes training faster and more efficient. Similar functionalities of DeepSpeed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI version 1.3 also includes a sample taxonomy tree with example skills and knowledge that you can download and use for training a model. For general availability, there are three options for installing and deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. Installing on bare metal Installing on Amazon Web Service (AWS) Installing on IBM Cloud Installing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Installing on Azure After installation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI general availability, you can manually download open source Granite LLMs that you can chat and interact with. For more information about downloading these models, see Downloading additional models .