{"id":1001489,"date":"2026-04-07T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001489"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:33:11","slug":"nvidia-acquisition-of-schedmd-sparks-worry-among-ai-specialists-about-software-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/nvidia-acquisition-of-schedmd-sparks-worry-among-ai-specialists-about-software-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia acquisition of SchedMD sparks worry among AI specialists about software access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s commitment to maintaining a fair playing field for chip rivals and AI data center builders. <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia last December announced it would acquire SchedMD, giving it control of open-source software called Slurm, which schedules computing tasks and is critical for training large language models that power chatbots such as Anthropic&#8217;s Claude. Slurm also runs on government supercomputers which help forecast the weather and develop nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 schedules computing tasks and is critical for training large language models that power chatbots such as Anthropic&#8217;s Claude. Slurm also runs on government supercomputers which help forecast the weather and develop nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}