By PYMNTS
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 20:43:00
Nvidia has acquired SchedMD and said it will continue to distribute that company’s open-source Slurm software.
Slurm, a workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), is used in more than half of the top 10 and top 100 systems in the TOP500 list of supercomputers, Nvidia said in a Monday (Dec. 15) blog post.
The two companies have been collaborating for over a decade, according to the post.
With the acquisition, Nvidia will continue to invest in Slurm’s development “to ensure it remains the leading open-source scheduler for HPC and AI”; offer open-source software support, training and development for Slurm to SchedMD’s customers; and develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, while making it available to the broader HPC and AI community, according to the post.
“Nvidia will accelerate SchedMD’s access to new systems — allowing users of Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform to optimize workloads across their entire compute infrastructure — while also supporting a diverse hardware and software ecosystem, so customers can run heterogeneous clusters with the latest Slurm innovations,” Nvidia said in the post.
SchedMD CEO Danny Auble said in the release that the acquisition demonstrates the importance of Slurm’s role in demanding HPC and AI environments.
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