Alternatives to Slurm Workload Manager

ClearML

ClearML suits teams managing AI/ML work across GPU infrastructure and model development, especially those needing cloud, on-premises, hybrid, or self-hosted deployment.

Backend.AI serves users ranging from small teams with a single GPU to institutions operating large clusters.

GPUStack

GPUStack suits teams deploying AI models across on-premise, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure, including Kubernetes and air-gapped environments.

HAMi

HAMi suits teams running AI, machine-learning or HPC workloads on Kubernetes that need to share accelerator resources.

Apache YuniKorn

It suits Kubernetes users managing batch, data, or machine learning workloads who need queue controls and scheduling policies.

Kueue suits teams managing batch workloads and quotas on Kubernetes clusters.

It suits academic, government, and commercial organizations managing computational workloads across networked machines.

OpenPBS is suited to organizations managing HPC workloads across clusters, clouds, or supercomputers.

It suits Kubernetes operators managing mixed latency-sensitive, batch, AI, and data workloads.

TORQUE suits administrators managing compute clusters who can build and deploy a self-hosted resource manager.

KAI Scheduler suits teams running GPU workloads on Kubernetes across shared cloud or on-premises clusters.

It suits organizations operating Linux-based HPC environments that need policy-driven scheduling, resource allocation, analytics, and multi-cluster control.

SkyPilot

It is aimed at AI teams managing large GPU fleets and workloads across cloud, Kubernetes, Slurm, virtual machines and on-premises infrastructure.

It suits administrators managing Linux-based servers, nodes, or systems who need provisioning and lifecycle controls.