What the Massachusetts AI Hub could mean for AI innovation
High-impact AI solutions to global challenges are within reach. Here’s how Massachusetts’ big bet on equity and collaboration helps. By Orran Krieger Opportunities for AI development in open source got a big boost in December when Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy...
New solutions for drug discovery: harnessing the power of open cloud and open source AI
By Gagan Kumar The convergence of open source technology and artificial intelligence is transforming drug discovery, introducing new standards of transparency, collaboration, and innovation. On October 30th, leaders from research, industry, and academia gathered at...
Intern spotlight: Arlo Albelli, bird nerd and builder of architecture-agnostic optimizations
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...
Fedora Linux transition for quantum resistant cryptography
By Dmitry Belyavskiy While numerous robust post-quantum (PQ) standards exist, along with various projects implementing them, widespread adoption for communication and data protection hinges on their integration into mainstream OS distributions. By incorporating these...
Student research spotlight: Jakub Suchánek studies authentication in public open source repositories
Understanding user perception and behavior is often neglected in open source software (OSS) security. Jakub Suchánek, a student of the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University, collaborated with Red Hat Research on a project investigating authentication in public...
Intern spotlight: Eric Munson builds guitars and Unikernel Linux
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...
Correctness in distributed systems: the case of jgroups-raft
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...
Kernel Development Learning Pipeline program brings Linux to college students
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...
Co-design research lab accelerates innovation in non-traditional and specialized hardware
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...
An Open vSwitch security feature causes a security problem. Here’s how to prevent it.
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...