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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.
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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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Nemotron 3 Nano focuses on efficient task execution, Nemotron 3 Super supports collaboration across multiple AI agents, and Nemotron 3 Ultra handles complex reasoning workflows.
Nvidia provides these models with associated datasets, reinforcement learning libraries, and NeMo Gym training environments.
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Nemotron 3 models run on Nvidia accelerated computing platforms, including workstations and large AI clusters.
Developers can combine open models with proprietary systems in multi-agent workflows, using public clouds or enterprise platforms.
Nvidia provides tools, libraries, and datasets to support training, evaluation, and deployment across varied computing environments.
Nvidia has released three trillion tokens of pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning data for Nemotron 3 models.
Additional AI tools, including NeMo RL and NeMo Evaluator, offer model evaluation and safety assessment.
Early adopters integrating Nemotron 3 include companies in software, cybersecurity, media, manufacturing, and cloud services.
Nvidia has made open source models, AI tools, and datasets available on GitHub and Hugging Face for developers building agentic AI applications.
“Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, wrote in the company’s press release.
“With Nemotron, we’re transforming advanced AI into an open platform that gives developers the transparency and efficiency they need to build agentic systems at scale.”
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Efosa UdinmwenFreelance JournalistEfosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in analytical thinking.
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