Earlier this week, Nvidia launched its Nemotron 3 family of open-source AI models, including the immediately available Nemotron 3 Nano and forthcoming Super and Ultra variants, while also disclosing a surge in demand from major Chinese tech companies for its H200 GPUs following new U.

While one partner said Nvidia’s acquisition of Slurm maker SchedMD, announced on Monday, makes sense for its AI factory push, another raised concerns about Slurm’s future based on Nvidia’s history with a previous software acquisition.

Nvidia burnished its open source credentials this week after buying the company behind the veteran Slurm scheduler and announcing a slew of open source AI models.

Nvidia said on Monday it acquired AI software firm SchedMD, as the chip designer doubles down on open-source technology and steps up investments in the artificial intelligence ecosystem to fend off rising competition.

Nvidia has moved to acquire the developers behind Slurm, with the acquisition of SchedMD set to enable Nvidia users to optimize workloads across their entire compute infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced it has acquired SchedMD — developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing and AI. NVIDIA - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

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