NVIDIA acquires SchedMD to advance Slurm for AI

NVIDIA has announced the acquisition of SchedMD, developer of the open-source Slurm workload manager for HPC and AI.

• NVIDIA will continue Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, investing in its development and distribution so it remains the leading scheduler for HPC and AI, supports heterogeneous clusters, and is optimized for NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform.
• SchedMD’s hundreds of customers (including cloud providers, manufacturers, AI companies and research labs across sectors such as autonomous driving, healthcare and life sciences, energy, financial services, manufacturing and government) will keep receiving support, training and development, as NVIDIA aims to bolster the open-source software ecosystem and improve resource utilization for large-scale HPC and generative AI workloads.