NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the maker of Slurm. Slurm is a leading open-source workload management and job scheduling system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. This change aims to enhance AI innovation. It also supports researchers, developers, and businesses. Slurm runs on over half of the top 10 and top 100 supercomputers in the TOP500 list. It efficiently manages complex HPC and AI workloads by queuing, scheduling, and allocating resources in large-scale clusters. “We’re thrilled to join forces with NVIDIA, as this acquisition is the ultimate validation of Slurm’s critical role in the world’s most demanding HPC and AI environments,” said Danny Auble, CEO of SchedMD.
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NVIDIA will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as vendor-neutral, open-source software, ensuring broad accessibility across diverse hardware and software ecosystems while optimizing workloads on NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform. The acquisition also aims to enhance support for generative AI and foundation model development, expand Slurm’s reach to new systems, and maintain training and development for SchedMD’s global customer base, spanning industries such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, energy, autonomous driving, and government.