Nvidia will increase SchedMD’s access to new systems and boost its development
2025-12-16 14:25
NVIDIA bought SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, a popular open-source scheduler for HPC and AI workloads, to support innovation among researchers, developers, and enterprises, and bolster its open-source software ecosystem. The firm plans to maintain Slurm as an open-source, hardware-agnostic tool, ensuring it remains broadly accessible to researchers and AI developers. Nvidia will increase SchedMD’s access to new systems and boost its development Nvidia is increasing its investment in open-source tools as part of a broader strategy to stay ahead in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence market. It has been working closely with SchedMD for over ten years, and now, with the acquisition, it will continue to invest in Slurm. Slurm, which translates to Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, has long been an essential part of supercomputing. Currently, it is used in over half of the TOP500 supercomputers worldwide, allowing complex parallel computations to be scheduled. It also allows...
