Slinky

Project Slinky is an initiative aimed at simplifying and accelerating Slurm-based workload orchestration across hybrid and AI-driven environments. It focuses on integrating Slurm — the leading open-source workload manager for HPC and AI clusters — with modern infrastructure automation platforms to streamline GPU scheduling, cluster lifecycle management, and multi-tenant resource sharing.

By abstracting complex Slurm configurations behind policy-driven automation and APIs, Project Slinky enables platform teams to deliver self-service HPC and AI environments that combine the scalability of Kubernetes-style operations with the proven performance of Slurm, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and compliance across diverse compute backends.

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