NVIDIA acquires Slurm maker SchedMD

NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm, an open-source scheduler used for HPC and AI workloads.

The company, in an announcement, said it will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, and keep it available to the broader HPC and AI community across diverse hardware and software environments.

NVIDIA said Slurm handles queuing, scheduling and allocation of computational resources for parallel tasks on large clusters and that it leads in scalability, throughput and complex policy management.

The chipmaker highlighted that Slurm is used in more than half of the top 10 and top 100 systems in the TOP500 list of supercomputers.

“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.

Nvidia noted that it has collaborated with SchedMD for over a decade and will continue investing in Slurm’s development to meet next-generation AI and supercomputing demands.

Slurm will, meanwhile, continue to be supported by the latest NVIDIA hardware.

NVIDIA added it will accelerate SchedMD’s access to new systems, allow users of its accelerated computing platform to optimise workloads across their compute infrastructure, and continue offering open-source support, training and development to SchedMD’s hundreds of customers, including cloud providers, manufacturers, AI companies and research labs.

The Recap

• NVIDIA acquired SchedMD, developer of open-source workload manager.
• Slurm is used in more than half of TOP 500 systems.
• NVIDIA will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source.