One more reason why Nvidia is impossible to catch

Nvidia acquires SchedMD, open-source AI workload management.

December 17, 2025

Jon Peddie

Nvidia purchased SchedMD, and will continue offering Slurm, a widely used cluster scheduler for AI and HPC platforms, while maintaining openness and vendor neutrality. Slurm already assists many supercomputers, and AI teams efficiently share CPUs, GPUs, and networks. For Nvidia, the deal fills an important software gap rather than changing its core strategy. It also highlights why Nvidia remains hard to challenge: It builds broad, integrated capabilities over time, while many AI start-ups still bet on narrow, single-idea approaches. This ain’t Jenga we’re playing here…. Nvidia has acquired SchedMD, the primary developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system used

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