Category: Red Hat Gen AI
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Red Hat AI vs the Managed Clouds, the Verdict and What to Learn Next (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 30)
Capstone of the series: where Red Hat AI beats AWS, Google, Azure and IBM watsonx, where it loses on cost, and an honest verdict on self hosting Granite versus renting a frontier API.
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Air Gapped and Disconnected Red Hat AI Deployments (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 29)
Stand up a self hosted Granite assistant in a disconnected data center: mirror images with oc-mirror v2, carry model weights across the gap, trust your registry, and lock down egress.
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Cost and FinOps for Self Hosted GenAI on OpenShift AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 28)
Self hosting Granite rarely wins on unit cost until you reach billions of tokens a month. Here is how to price a self hosted token, measure real GPU utilisation on OpenShift AI, and find where a managed API stops being cheaper.
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RAG on OpenShift AI With a Self Hosted Vector Store (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 27)
Build self hosted RAG on OpenShift AI: Llama Stack, a Milvus vector store and your served Granite model, with the vector-only gotcha that quietly costs recall.
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OpenShift AI Guardrails for a Self Hosted Granite Assistant (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 26)
Input and output guardrails for a self hosted Granite assistant on OpenShift AI: deploy the FMS Guardrails Orchestrator, block PII and prompt injection, and keep the added latency inside the tail budget.
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Benchmarking a Self Hosted Inference Deployment With GuideLLM (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 25)
A single hand run is not a benchmark. Here is how to measure a self hosted Granite deployment with GuideLLM and gate every model or config change on tail latency, not throughput, so no regression ships unmeasured.
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Token Economics and Latency Tuning for Self Hosted Granite (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 24)
What one answer from a self hosted Granite model actually costs, and the three vLLM flags that decide it. A latency aware guide to throughput, TTFT and cost per token on the Red Hat AI Inference Server.
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llm-d Distributed Inference on Kubernetes for Granite at Scale (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 23)
llm-d spreads vLLM inference across a Kubernetes cluster with prefill decode disaggregation and KV cache aware routing. When it pays off, and how to deploy it behind an inference gateway.
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Model Compression and Quantization With LLM Compressor (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 22)
Quantizing Granite with LLM Compressor cuts the support assistant from 16 GB to under 5 GB of weights. A format by format comparison of FP8, INT8, INT4 and NVFP4, with the memory, accuracy recovery and hardware trade offs named.
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vLLM Internals, PagedAttention and Continuous Batching Explained (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 21)
vLLM turns model serving from a compute problem into a paging problem. Here is how PagedAttention and continuous batching actually work inside the Red Hat AI Inference Server, and where they break under load.
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Red Hat AI Inference Server, a Hardened vLLM Distribution (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 20)
Red Hat AI Inference Server is upstream vLLM packaged as a supported, hardened container. Here is what it adds, how to serve Granite behind it, and how to benchmark it honestly.
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Multi Tenancy, Projects and Resource Quota on OpenShift AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 19)
How to give shared GPU nodes accountable owners on OpenShift AI: data science projects, ResourceQuota, LimitRange and Kueue fair-share queues, with the failures each one hides.
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