Nvidia has acquired ShadeMD, the AI software company behind the popular open source workload management system Slurm.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Nvidia said blog post ShedMD’s software will still be available on an open source basis and it will continue to invest in the development of Slum.
Nvidia and ShadeMD have been collaborating for more than a decade, with Nvidia saying the company’s technology is “crucial” to generative AI.
“This acquisition is the ultimate validation of Slum’s important role in the world’s most demanding HPC and AI environments,” said Danny Auble, CEO of ShadeMD.
“Nvidia’s deep expertise and investment in accelerated computing will enhance the development of Slurm, which will continue to be open source to meet the demands of the next generation of AI and supercomputing,” he said.
The semiconductor giant said the partnership hopes to promote open source software to “catalyze HPC and AI innovation” in sectors including autonomous driving, healthcare and life sciences, energy, financial services, manufacturing and government.
In fact, this announcement comes as Nvidia is building its open source software ecosystem and increasing investment in AI innovation.
This week, semiconductor giants also Issued A new family of open AI models, called Nemotron, designed to help businesses build and scale complex agentic AI applications.
“With Nemotron, we are transforming advanced AI into an open platform that gives developers the transparency and efficiency they need to build agentic systems at scale,” Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, said at the company. Press release,
Earlier this month the company had also announced this partnership To develop a new family of open source models with large language model developer Mistral AI, as well launch For Alpamayo-R1, its open logic vision language action model autonomous driving,
