摘要:据路透社报道,芯片巨头英伟达宣布完成对 AI 软件公司 SchedMD 的收购(财务条款未披露),此举旨在持续加码开源技术、完善人工智能生态系统以强化行业竞争力;SchedMD 于 2010 年由 Slurm 软件开发者莫里斯・“莫”・吉特与丹尼・奥布尔在加州利弗莫尔创立(约 40 名员工),核心技术为开源软件 Slurm(可高效调度占据数据中心大量容量的大规模计算任务,适配最新英伟达硬件,广泛用于 AI 模型训练与推理管理),其商业化模式为免费开放 Slurm、通过专业工程支持与维护服务盈利,客户包括 CoreWeave、巴塞罗那超级计算中心等;英伟达明确收购后将继续以开源方式分发 SchedMD 软件以保障生态连续性,且同日同步发布全新开源 AI 模型系列,称该系列在运算速度、成本控制及智能水平上均有显著提升。
Dec 16 (Reuters) – Chip giant NVIDIA announced the completion of its acquisition of SchedMD, an AI software company, on December 16. The deal underscores NVIDIA’s ongoing push into open-source technology and its strategy to refine its AI ecosystem and enhance industry competitiveness. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2010 in Livermore, California, by Slurm software developers Morris “Mo” Jette and Danny Auble, SchedMD employs approximately 40 people. Its core technology is Slurm, an open-source software that efficiently schedules large-scale computing tasks—critical for data center server management and widely used by foundation model developers and AI builders for model training and inference. Notably, Slurm has been adapted to support NVIDIA’s latest hardware, making it a key infrastructure for generative AI development. While Slurm is free for developers and enterprises, SchedMD generates revenue through professional engineering support and maintenance services, with clients including cloud infrastructure firm CoreWeave and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
NVIDIA confirmed that post-acquisition, it will continue distributing SchedMD’s software as open-source to ensure ecosystem continuity and openness. On the same day, NVIDIA also launched a new series of open-source AI models, claiming significant improvements in speed, cost control, and intelligence.
12 月 16 日(路透社报道)—— 芯片巨头英伟达于 12 月 16 日宣布完成对 AI 软件公司 SchedMD 的收购。此次交易彰显了英伟达对开源技术的持续加码,以及进一步完善人工智能生态系统、强化行业竞争力的战略考量,相关财务条款未对外披露。
SchedMD 于 2010 年由 Slurm 软件开发者莫里斯・“莫”・吉特与丹尼・奥布尔在美国加利福尼亚州利弗莫尔创立,现有员工约 40 人。该公司核心技术为开源软件 Slurm,能够高效调度大规模计算任务(此类任务往往占据数据中心服务器的大量容量),目前已被基础模型开发者和 AI 构建者广泛应用于模型训练与推理管理。值得关注的是,Slurm 已实现对最新英伟达硬件的适配,成为生成式 AI 发展的重要基础设施支撑。在商业化模式上,Slurm 软件向开发者和企业免费开放,SchedMD 通过提供专业工程支持与维护服务实现价值转化,其客户涵盖云基础设施公司 CoreWeave、巴塞罗那超级计算中心等知名机构。
英伟达明确表示,收购完成后将继续以开源方式分发 SchedMD 的软件产品,确保技术生态的连续性与开放性。同日,英伟达还同步发布了全新开源 AI 模型系列,宣称该系列产品在运算速度、成本控制和智能水平上均实现显著提升。