Nvidia has acquired SchedMD, the AI software company behind popular open source workload management system Slurm.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Nvidia said in a blog post that SchedMD’s software would still be available on an open source basis and that it would continue to invest in Slurm’s development.
Nvidia and SchedMD have been collaborating for more than a decade, with Nvidia saying the company’s technology is “critical” for generative AI.
“This acquisition is the ultimate validation of Slurm’s critical role in the world’s most demanding HPC and AI environments,” said Danny Auble, SchedMD’s CEO.
“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,” he added.
The semiconductor giant said the partnership hopes to bolster open source software to “catalyze HPC and AI innovation” across sectors including autonomous driving, healthcare and life sciences, energy, financial services, manufacturing and government.
Indeed, the announcement comes as Nvidia continues to build out its open source software ecosystem and step up investments in AI innovation.
This week, the semiconductor giant also released a new family of open AI models, dubbed Nemotron, which are designed to help businesses build and scale complex agentic AI applications.
“With Nemotron, we’re transforming advanced AI into an open platform that gives developers the transparency and efficiency they need to build agentic systems at scale,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in the company’s press release.
Earlier this month, the company also announced its partnership with large language model developer Mistral AI to develop a new family of open source models, as well as the launch of Alpamayo-R1, its open reasoning vision language action model for autonomous driving.
