View source for SchedMD

{{Short description|American Software Company}}
{{one source|date=March 2014}}
{{Infobox company
 |name     = SchedMD LLC
 |type     = [[Private company|Private]]
 |founder          = Morris Jette <br />Danny Auble
 |location_city    = [[Lehi, Utah]]
 |location_country = U.S.
 |area_served      = Worldwide
 |industry = [[High performance computing]]
 |products = {{nowrap|[[Slurm Workload Manager|Slurm]]}}
 |homepage = {{URL|www.schedmd.com}}
}}

'''SchedMD LLC''' is an American [[software]] company that is the main developer of the [[Slurm Workload Manager]] (or Slurm), an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[workload management system]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://schedmd.com/downloads.php| title=Download Slurm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://slurm.schedmd.com/team.html| title=Slurm Team}}</ref> 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]].

== History ==

[[Slurm Workload Manager|Slurm]] began development as a collaborative effort <ref>{{cite web| url=https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/disclaimer.html| title=Collaborative Open Source Effort}}</ref> primarily by [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], Linux NetworX, [[Hewlett-Packard]] and [[Groupe Bull]] as a Free Software resource manager in 2001. In 2010 Morris Jette and Danny Auble incorporated SchedMD LLC, to develop and market [[Slurm Workload Manager|Slurm]].

SchedMD provides services to many national labs, [[universities]], [[corporations]] and [[government agencies]], including:
{{columns-list|colwidth=22em|
* [[Arizona State University]]
* [[Brigham Young University]]
* [[Groupe Bull]]
* [[French CEA]]
* [[Cray]]
* [[Duke University]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://sites.duke.edu/researchcomputing/2014/01/27/slurm-is-coming-mpi-threading-open-source-reprogramming-and-futurama/| title=SLURM is coming! MPI threading, Open Source, reprogramming, and Futurama.}}</ref>
* [[Harvard University]]
* [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]
* [[Météo-France]]
* [[MIT]]
* NASA Center for Climate Simulation
* [[Swiss National Supercomputing Centre]]
* Tufts University<ref>{{cite web| url=https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/TuftsUITResearchComputing/slurm/| title=Slurm Open Source}}</ref>
}}

== Business model ==

SchedMD partly operates on a [[professional open-source]] [[business model]] based on open source code, development within a community, professional [[quality assurance]], and subscription-based [[customer support]].

SchedMD sells subscriptions for support, training and integration services. Customers pay a fixed price for unlimited access to services.

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==

* {{official website}}
* [https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm Slurm GitHub repository]

[[Category:2010 establishments in Utah]]
[[Category:Research]]
[[Category:Free software companies]]
[[Category:American companies established in 2010]]
[[Category:Software companies of the United States]]