Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm

Nvidia burnished its open source credentials this week after buying the company behind the veteran Slurm scheduler and announcing a slew of open source AI models.

The chip giant revealed yesterday that it had acquired SchedMD, the key developer behind Slurm, which Nvidia described in a statement as "an open source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI."

Slurm has been around since 2002, when backers included Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and France's Groupe Bull.

Nvidia said this week it will "continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open source, vendor-neutral software, making it widely available to and supported by the broader HPC and AI community across diverse hardware and software environments."

It added that "Nvidia will accelerate SchedMD's access to new systems – allowing users of Nvidia's accelerated computing platform to optimize workloads across their entire compute infrastructure." But Nvidia insisted it will also support ...