“Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress” says Jensen Huang as Nvidia reveals big open source AI push - major acquisition sealed and new models on the way
Nvidia acquires SchedMD to strengthen open-source software
· TechRadarNews By Efosa Udinmwen published 18 December 2025
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- Nvidia acquires SchedMD to maintain Slurm as open source workload management software
- Slurm manages scheduling and resources for large clusters running parallel AI tasks
- Nvidia launched Nemotron 3 models, including Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes for AI tasks
Nvidia has announced a major expansion of its open source efforts, combining a software acquisition with new open AI models.
The company has announced it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open source workload management system widely used in high-performance computing and AI.
Nvidia will continue to operate Slurm as vendor-neutral software, ensuring compatibility with diverse hardware and maintaining support for existing HPC and AI customers.
Slurm and more
Slurm manages scheduling, queuing, and resource allocation across large computing clusters that run parallel tasks.
More than half of the top 10 and top 100 supercomputers listed in the TOP500 rankings rely on the services, with enterprises, cloud providers, research labs, and AI companies across industries using the system, including organizations in autonomous driving, healthcare, energy, financial services, manufacturing, and government.
Slurm works with Nvidia’s latest hardware, and its developers continue to adapt it for high-performance AI workloads.
Alongside the acquisition, Nvidia also introduced the Nemotron 3 family of open models, including Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes.
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