Gregory M. Kurtzer

Open Source Visionary | HPC Pioneer | CEO of CIQ

Co-founder of CentOS, Creator of Rocky Linux, Singularity/Apptainer, and Warewulf — driving innovation in enterprise Linux and high-performance computing for over two decades.

As CEO and founder of CIQ, Gregory leads a global team delivering enterprise support and innovation for Rocky Linux, HPC, and AI infrastructure. His work bridges academia, government, and industry, solving critical computational challenges and championing open source principles across the ecosystem.

With a background in biochemistry and a passion for Linux that began in the mid-1990s, Gregory has spent over 25 years enabling scientific discovery through scalable, open infrastructure.

Open Source Projects

Rocky Linux

Enterprise-grade Linux distribution continuing the CentOS legacy, providing a stable, community-driven platform for production environments worldwide.

CentOS

Co-founder of one of the most widely-used enterprise Linux distributions, powering millions of servers globally from 2003-2020.

Singularity / Apptainer

Revolutionary container runtime for HPC and scientific computing, now a Linux Foundation project enabling reproducible research at scale.

Warewulf

Scalable cluster management suite for high-performance Linux clusters, simplifying provisioning and system administration.

OpenELA

Open Enterprise Linux Association ensuring the longevity of Enterprise Linux through community collaboration with CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE.

Agentiq

AI-powered system administration platform that autonomously monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots infrastructure. Agentiq built this server configuration, created this webpage content, and continuously maintains the gmk.dev infrastructure with intelligent automation.

PERCEUS

Research initiative advancing HPC infrastructure and provisioning technologies.