NVIDIA acquired SchedMD, the primary developer of the Slurm workload management system, on December 15, 2025. The acquisition aims to strengthen NVIDIA's role within the high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) software ecosystem. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Slurm manages and schedules jobs on more than half of the world's top supercomputers. This critical tool also provides essential infrastructure for large-scale AI model training.
NVIDIA confirmed it will continue developing and distributing Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software. The acquisition deepens NVIDIA's integration with key infrastructure used by AI and HPC researchers and enterprises, solidifying its market position.