Key takeaways Nvidia acquires SchedMD, developer of Slurm workload management system used in over 60% of TOP500 supercomputers. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed; acquisition announced De...
The chip designer, which has built its reputation on powerful processors for AI training and inference, is expanding its software capabilities through the deal. Financial terms were not disclosed.
SchedMD develops Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), software that schedules and manages large computing jobs across data centers.
According to Nvidia, Slurm is currently deployed in more than half of the top 10 and top 100 systems ranked in the TOP500 list of supercomputers, making it the leading workload manager in terms of scalability, throughput and complex policy management.
The acquisition signals Nvidia's growing focus on software as it works to cement its position at the center of the AI computing stack.
While the company's CUDA programming platform has long been a cornerstone of its dominance in the AI hardware market, this deal represents a broader push into open-source infrastructure software.
"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, in a statement released through Nvidia.
"NVIDIA's deep expertise and investment in accelerated computing will enhance the development of Slurm — which will continue to be open source — to meet the demands of the next generation of AI and supercomputing."
Nvidia emphasized that it will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, ensuring wide availability for the high-performance computing and AI community across diverse hardware and software environments.
The two companies have been collaborating for over a decade, according to Nvidia.
The acquisition will accelerate SchedMD's access to new systems and enable users of Nvidia's accelerated computing platform to optimize workloads across their entire compute infrastructure.
SchedMD was founded in 2010 by Morris "Moe" Jette and Danny Auble, the original developers of Slurm, in Livermore, California.
The company currently employs approximately 40 people and serves hundreds of customers, including cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, among research labs and enterprises across industries such as autonomous driving, healthcare, energy, financial services, manufacturing, and government.
Nvidia also unveiled a new family of open-source AI models on the same day as the SchedMD acquisition announcement, reinforcing its commitment to open-source technology as competition intensifies from Chinese AI labs and other rivals in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence market.
The deal reflects the critical importance of efficient resource management as HPC and AI clusters grow larger and more powerful.
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