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Nvidia Buys Slurm Developer SchedMD to Boost Open-Source AI Stack
NEWS RECAP (WHAT HAPPENED)
Nvidia $NVDA announced it has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm, an open-source workload manager used to schedule and manage large compute jobs across clusters. Nvidia says Slurm will remain open-source and vendor-neutral, and it plans to keep investing in its development. Deal terms were not disclosed.
WHY THIS MATTERS FOR TRADERS
Slurm is “plumbing” for AI and HPC: it decides which jobs run where, when, and on how many GPUs and nodes. If Nvidia can help make Slurm better integrated, easier to operate, and more efficient on modern GPU clusters, that can increase GPU utilisation, reduce idle time, and make Nvidia-based infrastructure more attractive at scale. This is also another step in Nvidia building a broader ...
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