SchedMD LLC is an American
software
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...
company that is the main developer of the
Slurm Workload Manager
The Slurm Workload Manager, formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), or simply Slurm, is a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels, used by many of the world's supercomputers and comput ...
(or Slurm), an
open-source
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workload management system. SchedMD also provides support, training and consulting services around Slurm.
SchedMD was founded in 2010, specifically to develop and provide services around Slurm. Its corporate headquarters are in
Lehi, Utah
Lehi ( ) is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is named after Lehi, a prophet in the Book of Mormon. The population was 75,907 at the 2020 census, up from 47,407 in 2010. The rapid growth in Lehi is due, in part, to the rapid develo ...
.
History
Slurm began development as a collaborative effort
primarily by
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...
, Linux NetworX,
Hewlett-Packard and
Groupe Bull
Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull Genera ...
as a Free Software resource manager in 2001. In 2010 Morris Jette and Danny Auble incorporated SchedMD LLC, to develop and market
Slurm.
SchedMD provides services to many national labs,
universities
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,
corporations
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and
government agencies
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, including:
Business model
SchedMD partly operates on a
professional open-source
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business model
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based on open source code, development within a community, professional
quality assurance, and subscription-based
customer support
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.
SchedMD sells subscriptions for support, training and integration services. Customers pay a fixed price for unlimited access to services.
References
External links
* {{official website
Slurm GitHub repository
2010 establishments in Utah
Research
Free software companies
American companies established in 2010
Software companies of the United States