Nvidia announced this week that it acquired AI software firm SchedMD.

SchedMD is the lead developer of Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), a cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. (“Slurm” is also the name of a soda in Futurama.)

Nvidia stated that it “will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, making it widely available to and supported by the broader HPC and AI community across diverse hardware and software environments.” It also said, “NVIDIA will continue to offer open-source software support, training and development for Slurm to SchedMD’s hundreds of customers….”

Slurm is supported on NVIDIA hardware, and is a key element of generative AI infrastructure.