NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD to reinforce open source AI infrastructure, pledging to keep the Slurm workload manager open, vendor-neutral, and central to global HPC and AI ecosystems.
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has acquired AI software company SchedMD, signalling a deeper commitment to open source technologies as competition intensifies across the artificial intelligence ecosystem.
SchedMD is best known as the creator of Slurm, a widely deployed open-source workload manager that underpins high-performance computing systems and large-scale AI deployments worldwide. NVIDIA has explicitly stated that Slurm will remain open source and vendor-neutral following the acquisition, ensuring continued support for heterogeneous environments that combine hardware from multiple vendors.
Slurm plays a foundational role across supercomputing centres, AI training clusters, and research and enterprise-scale compute environments. Preserving its openness maintains its function as critical infrastructure glue for the global HPC and AI community, while reinforcing trust among developers, researchers, and operators.
The acquisition aligns with NVIDIA’s broader expansion of open source and open AI initiatives. In early December, the company launched Alpamayo-R1, an open reasoning vision language model aimed at autonomous driving research. NVIDIA also released new workflows and guidance for its Cosmos world models, which are licensed under a permissive open-source framework to support the development of physical AI systems, including robotics and embodied intelligence.
While NVIDIA continues to design specialised processors spanning AI, data centres, professional visualisation, and automotive applications, the move underscores a strategy centred on open software layers paired with NVIDIA-optimised hardware.
Analysts continue to rank NVIDIA among the leading AI stocks.
