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NVIDIA bought SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, a popular open-source scheduler for HPC and AI workloads, to support innovation among researchers, developers, and enterprises, and bolster its open-source software ecosystem. The firm plans to maintain Slurm as an open-source, hardware-agnostic tool, ensuring it remains broadly accessible to researchers and AI developers. Nvidia will increase SchedMD’s access to new systems and boost its development Nvidia is increasing its investment in open-source tools as part of a broader strategy to stay ahead in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence market. It has been working closely with SchedMD for over ten years, and now, with the acquisition, it will continue to invest in Slurm. Slurm, which translates to Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management, has long been an essential part of supercomputing. Currently, it is used in over half of the TOP500 supercomputers worldwide, allowing complex parallel computations to be scheduled. It also allows resources to be allocated across thousands of CPUs and GPUs. By integrating SchedMD, NVIDIA gains stewardship of this crucial piece of the HPC and AI software stack, connecting hardware acceleration (via NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs and InfiniBand networking) to sophisticated job scheduling and resource orchestration. Such integration will enhance performance for everything from training large language models to running mission-critical scientific simulations Danny Auble, CEO of SchedMD, spoke about the buy, saying, “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. 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 also asserted, “Slurm, which is supported on the latest Nvidia hardware, is also part of the…

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