Nvidia has sought to cap off yet another strong year with an acquisition: picking up Slurm developer SchedMD.

Slurm is an open source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI. It performs resource management for some of the most high-end computing clusters, essentially acting akin to a conductor, orchestrating CPUs, GPUs, and memory to allocated nodes.

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.

No financial details were disclosed, but Nvidia did confirm it will continue to offer open source software support, training, and development for Slurm to SchedMD’s existing customer base.

“We’re thrilled to join forces with Nvidia, as this acquisition is the ultimate validation of Slurm’s critical role in the world’s most demanding HPC and AI environments,” said Danny Auble, CEO of SchedMD.

“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.”

SchedMD is Nvidia’s fourth and most likely final acquisition of 2025, following purchases of CentML, Lepton AI, and Gretel.

Notably, most of these acquisitions have centered around the software stack. CentML, for example, built a software platform and compiler designed to optimize AI model training and inference performance. Gretel, meanwhile, created synthetic data solutions designed to generate realistic artificial datasets to allow enterprises to build models without exposing proprietary information. Chinese firm Lepton was the outlier here, offering a cloud-native GPU platform, which has since rebranded as DGX Cloud Lepton.

The chip giant’s purchase of SchedMD comes as Nvidia continues to look for ways to augment its software offerings. Its software spending spree adds to recent releases like CUDA Tile and Grove as Nvidia looks to shore up its leading software solutions.

Slurm – which takes its name from a drink found in the cartoon Futurama – actually started out as a joint development effort from SchedMD along with engineers at Hewlett Packard, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Linux NetworX.

The first release was back in 2002, with SchedMD formally founded in 2010 to develop and provide services for Slurm.

“Together with SchedMD, Nvidia is bolstering the open-source software ecosystem to catalyze HPC and AI innovation across industries, at every scale,” the company said in a statement.