Superb! Indeed, in UCRL-MA-147996-Rev-1 (2002), LLNL’s Jette et al. use the following p.2 footnote to anchor the acronym: “A tip of the hat to Matt Groening and creators of Futurama, where Slurm is the highly addictive soda-like beverage made from worm excrement.” ( https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15002962 ).

They toned it down some by Rev 3 (2003, the ClusterWorld Expo version), to “[…], where Slurm is the most popular carbonated beverage in the universe.” … ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/slurm_design.pdf ) … eh-eh-eh!