SchedMD

SchedMD LLC

Company type	Private
Industry	High performance computing
Founder	Morris Jette Danny Auble
Headquarters	Lehi, Utah , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Slurm
Website	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 workload management system.<ref>"Download Slurm".</ref><ref>"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 began development as a collaborative effort <ref>"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.

SchedMD provides services to many national labs, universities, corporations and government agencies, including:

• Arizona State University
• Brigham Young University
• Groupe Bull
• French CEA
• Cray
• Duke University<ref>"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>"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.

External links

• Slurm GitHub repository