New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- NVIDIA has acquiredSchedMD, the company behind Slurm, the open-source workload management system widely used across high-performance computing (HPC) and AI environments. The move highlights how infrastructure software, often invisible to end users, is becoming central to the next phase of AI and supercomputing at scale.

Crucially, NVIDIA said it will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, keeping it available across diverse hardware and software environments. The acquisition does not change Slurm's licensing model, positioning the deal as an ecosystem play rather than a platform lock-in.

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