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Instantly experience end-to-end workflows for AI, data science, 3D design collaboration, and more.

What is NVIDIA LaunchPad?

NVIDIA LaunchPad is a free program that provides users short-term access to a large catalog of hands-on labs. Now enterprises and organizations can immediately tap into the necessary hardware and software stacks to experience end-to-end solution workflows in the areas of AI, data science, 3D design collaboration and simulation, and more.

LaunchPad helps developers, designers, and IT professionals speed up the creation and deployment of modern, data-intensive applications. After quick testing and prototyping, the same complete stack can be deployed for production workflows, so more confident software and infrastructure decisions can be made.

Get Immediate Access to Hands-On Labs

Ready for a hands-on experience with NVIDIA software solutions? Pick a lab to begin your journey.

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3D Design Collaboration and Simulation
Infrastructure Optimization

Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

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Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (VMware vSphere)

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, Triton Inference Server

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Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (Red Hat OpenShift)

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, Triton Inference Server

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Train a BERT Model for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA DGX
Technologies: BERT, PyTorch

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Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA DGX
Technologies: NeMo Megatron, PyTorch

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Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

Best For: IT administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA Fleet Command™, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVStreamer

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Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) APIs

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Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, virtual assistant application

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Fine-Tune a Speech AI Pipeline on Custom Data for Higher Accuracy

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA TAO, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

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Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS™, Dask, XGBoost

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Accelerate Data Processing, Tokenization, and Train an AI Model to Perform Sentiment Analysis

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS, pandas, PyTorch, Triton Inference Server

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Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer, machine learning engineer, business analysts

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA-Certified Systems, Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform
Technologies: RAPIDS, NVIDIA Triton, PyTorch, XGBoost

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Real-Time 3D Design Collaboration in a Physically Accurate Omniverse Scene

Best For: 3D designer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse Create and View), NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Omniverse RTX™ Renderer, PhysX^®, NVIDIA MDL materials

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Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

Best For: Project peviewer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse View), NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, NVIDIA-Certified Systems, VMware vSphere
Technologies: Omniverse RTX Renderer, PhysX, NVIDIA MDL materials

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Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Docker, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

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Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with VMware Tanzu

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes

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Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

Best For: IT administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes

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Experience VMware Project Monterey Early Access on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

Best For: Virtualization administrator, network administrator

What’s Included:

Products: VMware Project Monterey Early Access, NVIDIA BlueField^®-2 DPU, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: VMware NSX

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Deploy an End-to-End AI Image Classification Workload Using a Helm Chart

Best For: IT Practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes, NVIDIA Triton Interference Server

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Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

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Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (VMware vSphere)

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, Triton Inference Server

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Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (Red Hat OpenShift)

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, Triton Inference Server

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Train a BERT Model for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA DGX
Technologies: BERT, PyTorch

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Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA DGX
Technologies: NeMo Megatron, PyTorch

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Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

Best For: IT administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA Fleet Command™, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVStreamer

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Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) APIs

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Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, virtual assistant application

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Fine-Tune a Speech AI Pipeline on Custom Data for Higher Accuracy

Best For: AI practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Riva Enterprise, NVIDIA TAO, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

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Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS™, Dask, XGBoost

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Accelerate Data Processing, Tokenization, and Train an AI Model to Perform Sentiment Analysis

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS, pandas, PyTorch, Triton Inference Server

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Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Best For: Data scientist, data engineer, machine learning engineer, business analysts

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA-Certified Systems, Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform
Technologies: RAPIDS, NVIDIA Triton, PyTorch, XGBoost

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Real-Time 3D Design Collaboration in a Physically Accurate Omniverse Scene

Best For: 3D designer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse Create and View), NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Omniverse RTX™ Renderer, PhysX^®, NVIDIA MDL materials

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Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

Best For: Project peviewer

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse View), NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation, NVIDIA-Certified Systems, VMware vSphere
Technologies: Omniverse RTX Renderer, PhysX, NVIDIA MDL materials

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Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Docker, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

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Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with VMware Tanzu

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes

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Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

Best For: IT administrator

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes

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Experience VMware Project Monterey Early Access on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

Best For: Virtualization administrator, network administrator

What’s Included:

Products: VMware Project Monterey Early Access, NVIDIA BlueField^®-2 DPU, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: VMware NSX

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Deploy an End-to-End AI Image Classification Workload Using a Helm Chart

Best For: IT Practitioner

What’s Included:

Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes, NVIDIA Triton Interference Server

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How it Works

Join LaunchPad to Take a Lab in a Few Easy Steps

1

Choose Your Desired Lab

Choose your desired lab in the catalog and click “Get Started.”

2

Fill in the Membership Form

On the lab’s information page, fill out the LaunchPad form. Follow the steps in the email sent to you.

3

Wait for
Approval

Once approved for the LaunchPad program, you will be given access to the lab for up to two weeks.

4

Take Additional Labs

After your first lab, you can request to try additional labs in LaunchPad.

Get Started with a lab

Each lab comes with world-class service and support

Here’s What You Can Expect from NVIDIA LaunchPad Labs

A Hands-On Experience

Take curated labs that walk you through the entire process, from infrastructure optimization to application deployment.

Ready-to-Use Infrastructure

Test and prototype on ready-to-use infrastructure that’s hosted at Equinix and available to you for two weeks.

Assistance from Experts

Learn from documented, self-paced experiences and access assistance from NVIDIA experts when you need it.

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

After using NVIDIA LaunchPad, you’ll make more confident design and purchase decisions to accelerate your journey.

NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow

With NVIDIA LaunchPad, you’ll have access to hands-on labs on accelerated compute infrastructure–from the state-of-the-art NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ to mainstream NVIDIA-Certified Systems. Following a successful experience, you’ll be more confident with your design and purchase decisions, and better able to fast-track your project.

NVIDIA LaunchPad Is Available Worldwide

NVIDIA LaunchPad resources are available in nine regions across the globe in Equinix data centers. These resources include both NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ and mainstream NVIDIA-Certified Systems running complete NVIDIA AI software stacks—from GPU and DPU SDKs, to leading AI frameworks like TensorFlow and Triton Inference Server, to application frameworks focused on vision AI, medical imaging, cybersecurity, design collaboration, and more.

Benefits of the LaunchPad Experience

Whether you’re an AI developer, data scientist, designer, or IT professional, the benefits of trying out enterprise solutions on NVIDIA LaunchPad are numerous.

For AI Practitioners and Data Scientists
For 3D Design and Simulation Practitioners
For IT Professionals

Experience end-to-end workflows while learning about new products and technologies.
Access hands-on experiences across AI, data science, and 3D design.
Get instant access—no need to install software, tune for functionality, or find a dataset to use.
Try up to $20,000 (cloud-equivalent) of accelerated compute infrastructure for free.

Experience interactive, 3D design collaboration and multi-GPU, scalable simulation while experimenting with core Omniverse rendering, AI, and simulation technologies.
Access hands-on experiences for 3D designers, artists, engineers, and design project reviewers.
Test the same Omniverse Enterprise software stack that can be deployed across NVIDIA-Certified workstations and servers (enabled with NVIDIA RTX^™).
Try up to $20,000 (cloud-equivalent) of accelerated compute infrastructure for free.

Learn how to optimally deploy and scale modern, data-intensive applications.
Access hands-on experiences for MLOps and infrastructure optimization.
Test the same complete software and hardware stack that can be deployed anywhere.
Try up to $20,000 (cloud-equivalent) of accelerated compute infrastructure for free.

Experience a Hands-On Lab on NVIDIA LaunchPad

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The NVIDIA Technology Inside AI LaunchPad

The NVIDIA NGC catalog for pretrained models and other tools to speed development

NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD^™, industry-leading, turnkey infrastructure for the fastest path to AI innovation at scale

NVIDIA Base Command^™ for streamlined workflows and effortless orchestration of AI development

NVIDIA Fleet Command^™ for securely deploying and managing AI at the edge—from a single control plane

NVIDIA-Certified Systems^™, built on the NVIDIA EGX platform, for running accelerated AI workloads across the network

NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite for developing and deploying AI on VMware vSphere

Experience Free Hands-On Labs

What is NVIDIA LaunchPad?

Get Immediate Access to Hands-On Labs

Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (VMware vSphere)

Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (Red Hat OpenShift)

Train a BERT Model for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications

Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

Fine-Tune a Speech AI Pipeline on Custom Data for Higher Accuracy

Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

Accelerate Data Processing, Tokenization, and Train an AI Model to Perform Sentiment Analysis

Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Real-Time 3D Design Collaboration in a Physically Accurate Omniverse Scene

Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with VMware Tanzu

Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

Experience VMware Project Monterey Early Access on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

Deploy an End-to-End AI Image Classification Workload Using a Helm Chart

Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (VMware vSphere)

Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products (Red Hat OpenShift)

Train a BERT Model for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications

Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

Fine-Tune a Speech AI Pipeline on Custom Data for Higher Accuracy

Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

Accelerate Data Processing, Tokenization, and Train an AI Model to Perform Sentiment Analysis

Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Real-Time 3D Design Collaboration in a Physically Accurate Omniverse Scene

Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with VMware Tanzu

Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

Experience VMware Project Monterey Early Access on NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

Deploy an End-to-End AI Image Classification Workload Using a Helm Chart

How it Works

Join LaunchPad to Take a Lab in a Few Easy Steps

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Each lab comes with world-class service and support

Here’s What You Can Expect from NVIDIA LaunchPad Labs

A Hands-On Experience

Ready-to-Use Infrastructure

Assistance from Experts

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow

NVIDIA LaunchPad Is Available Worldwide

Benefits of the LaunchPad Experience

Experience a Hands-On Lab on NVIDIA LaunchPad

The NVIDIA Technology Inside AI LaunchPad

NVIDIA and Equinix Infrastructure Partners

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