NVIDIA Acquires SchedMD, Developer of Slurm Software That Powers Half the World's Top Supercomputers
Summary
NVIDIA acquires SchedMD, creator of Slurm software that manages workloads for over half of the world's top supercomputers, promising to keep the critical AI and high-performance computing infrastructure open-source while accelerating development for next-generation artificial intelligence systems.
Key Points
- NVIDIA acquires SchedMD, the leading developer of Slurm open-source workload management system for high-performance computing and AI environments
- Slurm manages complex computations and resource allocation for AI and HPC clusters, powering more than half of the world's top supercomputers and supporting generative AI infrastructure
- NVIDIA commits to maintaining Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software while accelerating its development to support diverse hardware ecosystems and optimize AI workloads