Nvidia acquisition of SchedMD sparks worry among AI specialists about software access
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-04-07 00:09
TORONTO/SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 (Reuters) - A niche acquisition by Nvidia has raised concerns among artificial-intelligence and supercomputer specialists who see the move as a test of the biggest AI chip company's commitment to maintaining a fair playing field for chip rivals and AI data center builders. Nvidia last December announced it would acquire SchedMD, giving it control of open-source software called Slurm, which schedulescomputing tasks and is critical for training large language models that power chatbots such as Anthropic's Claude. Slurm also runs on government supercomputers which help forecast the weather and develop nuclear weapons. The Slurm software helps power about 60% of supercomputers worldwide, according to SchedMD. Some of the engineers and executives who use those systems fear that Nvidia will subtly favor itself, five people say, such as by writing software upd...
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