Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is straightforward: Nvidia now controls scheduling software that also runs on hardware from its rivals, including AMD and Intel....