Overview
- The company announced the deal on Dec. 15, with financial terms undisclosed.
- Nvidia plans ongoing investment in Slurm development and faster access to new systems to help users optimize workloads across accelerated infrastructure.
- Nvidia frames the move as strengthening its open-source AI ecosystem, with Slurm remaining vendor-neutral and distributed as open source across diverse hardware.
- Slurm is widely deployed on TOP500 supercomputers and supports generative AI workloads, including model training and inference.
- SchedMD, founded in 2010 by Morris “Moe” Jette and Danny Auble, employs about 40 people and serves customers such as CoreWeave and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, with Nvidia continuing support, training and development.