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Slurm

A widely used open-source workload manager and job scheduler for HPC and AI clusters.

Current numbers

~70% / ~20% / ~10%AI/HPC scheduler share: Slurm / Kubernetes / in-house (rule of thumb)as of 2026-05-15 · register ↗
~90% K8s / ~50% SlurmGPU-cloud customers using K8s for inference vs Slurm for trainingas of 2025-04-10 · register ↗

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