Category: Tech Notes
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Model Registry and Versioning on OpenShift AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 16)
A tuned model with no version is a rollback you cannot make. Stand up the OpenShift AI model registry, register every Granite version from Python, and turn an hours long re-tune into a seconds long repoint.
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Distributed Training on OpenShift AI With the Training Operator (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 15)
Spread the Granite retrain across GPUs with the OpenShift AI Training Operator, PyTorchJob and Kueue, and see the measurements that show when multi node is the wrong call.
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Data Science Pipelines on OpenShift AI, From Notebook to Scheduled Retrain (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 14)
Build the support assistant’s nightly retrain as a Kubeflow pipeline on OpenShift AI: wire object storage, move data as artifacts, and stop a green run from shipping a worse model.
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OpenShift AI Platform Architecture, Component by Component (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 13)
A working map of Red Hat OpenShift AI, the meta operator, the DataScienceCluster, and the components you should actually turn on, with the serving change most tutorials miss.
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Hardware and Accelerator Sizing for RHEL AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 12)
Sizing GPUs for RHEL AI is a KV cache problem, not a weights problem. A worked memory calculator, a per accelerator concurrency table for Granite 3.1 8B, and the one flag that wakes a stalled server.
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Evaluating a Tuned Granite Model With MMLU and MT-Bench (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 11)
How to score a tuned Granite model honestly on RHEL AI with MMLU, MT-Bench, MMLU Branch and DK-Bench, and why the branch scores, not MMLU, decide whether to ship.
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Fine Tuning Granite With InstructLab Multi Phase Alignment (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 10)
Run lab-multiphase training on RHEL AI to tune Granite on your own docs, read the checkpoints MT-Bench actually picks, and avoid the restart prompt that wipes hours of work.
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InstructLab Taxonomy and Synthetic Data Generation on RHEL AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 9)
Building an InstructLab knowledge taxonomy and running synthetic data generation on RHEL AI, from qna.yaml seed examples to the training JSONL that Part 10 tunes on.
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Serving Granite Locally With ilab and vLLM (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 8)
Serving Granite on one RHEL AI box with ilab model serve and vLLM, from the first token to a locked down endpoint, including the tensor parallel error nearly everyone hits on day one.
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Installing RHEL AI From the Bootable Image to First Boot (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 7)
RHEL AI ships as a whole bootable operating system, not a package you add to Linux. Here is how to stand up a first box: download the image, size the disks, write a safe Kickstart, log in to the registry and get Granite downloaded before you serve it.
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Choosing a First Model and Accelerator for Red Hat AI (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 6)
Sizing a first Granite model and GPU for Red Hat AI is a memory problem, not a benchmark one. Here is how weights, KV cache and the InstructLab training floor decide what you actually buy or rent.
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InstructLab and the LAB Method for Taxonomy Driven Alignment (Red Hat Gen AI Series, Part 5)
InstructLab turns a handful of hand written questions into thousands of training examples. Here is how the LAB method and a taxonomy tree tune a Granite model on your own documents.
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