Explore NVIDIA NGC

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A portal of enterprise services, software, and support for AI, digital twins, and high-performance computing.

What Is NGC?

NVIDIA NGC™ is the portal of enterprise services, software, management tools, and support for end-to-end AI and digital twin workflows. Bring your solutions to market faster with fully managed services, or take advantage of performance-optimized software to build and deploy solutions on your preferred cloud, on-prem, and edge systems.

Enterprise Cloud Services

NGC offers a collection of cloud services, including NVIDIA NeMoBioNemo, and Riva Studio for generative AI, drug discovery, and speech AI solutions, and the NGC Private Registry for securely sharing proprietary AI software.

Try State-of-the-Art Generative AI Models From Your Browser

NVIDIA AI Foundation models offers an easy-to-use interface to quickly experience generative AI models from your browser without any setup. After you explore the model, you can customize it and take it to production with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

NGC Catalog: GPU-Optimized Software Hub for AI, Digital Twins, and HPC

The NGC catalog provides access to GPU-accelerated software that speeds up end-to-end workflows with performance-optimized containers, pretrained AI models, and industry-specific SDKs that can be deployed on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge.

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Simplify and Accelerate Your Development

Get the Optimized Performance

AI framework and SDK containers are constantly optimized and released on a monthly basis to deliver faster time to solution.

Pretrained Models to Build AI Faster

State-of-the-art pretrained models help you build custom models faster for computer vision, speech AI, and more.

Simplify With Jupyter Notebooks

Hundreds of Jupyter Notebooks let you understand, customize, test, and build models faster, while taking advantage of best practices.

Build With Secure Software

Containers undergo monthly security scans, and detailed reports are provided to ensure containers meet your company’s security policy.

Experience Models on the Fly

Test drive the models directly from your browser, integrate them into your applications using APIs, or download and run on your Windows machine without any setup.

A Platform for All Use Cases

From HPC to conversational AI to medical imaging to recommender systems and more, NGC Collections offer ready-to-use containers, pretrained models, SDKs, and Helm charts for diverse use cases and industries—in one place—to speed up your application development and deployment process.

Language Modeling

Language modeling is a natural language processing (NLP) task that determines the probability of a given sequence of words occurring in a sentence.

Recommender Systems

Recommender systems are a type of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item.

Image Segmentation

Image segmentation is the field of image processing that deals with separating an image into multiple subgroups or regions that represent distinctive objects or subparts.

Translation

Machine translation is the task of translating text from one language to another.

Object Detection

Object detection is about, not only detecting the presence and location of objects in images and videos, but also categorizing them into everyday objects.

ASR

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems include giving voice commands to an interactive virtual assistant, converting audio to subtitles on an online video, and more.

Text-to-Speech

Speech synthesis or text-to-speech is the task of artificially producing human speech from raw transcripts. Text-to-speech models are used when a mobile device converts text on a webpage to speech.

HPC

High-performance computing (HPC) is one of the most essential tools fueling the advancement of computational science, and that universe of scientific computing has expanded in all directions.

Supercharge Your Production AI

NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, secure, cloud-native suite of AI software that enables organizations to solve new challenges while increasing operational efficiency.

Trustworthy AI

Take advantage of software containers that are scanned monthly to reduce security concerns and AI models that  provide details around bias, explainability, safety, security, and privacy.

AI Workflows

Accelerate time to production with assembled solutions that include AI frameworks, pretrained models, Helm charts, Jupyter Notebooks, and more.

Enterprise Support

Build AI solutions and manage the lifecycle of AI applications with global enterprise support that ensures your business-critical projects stay on track.

Run Anywhere With Confidence

Software from the NGC catalog runs on bare-metal servers, Kubernetes, or on virtualized environments and can be deployed on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge—maximizing utilization of GPUs, portability, and scalability of applications. Users can manage the end-to-end AI development lifecycle with NVIDIA Base Command™.

On Premises

In the Cloud

Software from the NGC catalog can be deployed on GPU-powered instances. The software can be deployed directly on virtual machines (VMs) or on Kubernetes services offered by major cloud service providers (CSPs). NVIDIA AI software makes it easy for enterprises to develop and deploy their solutions in the cloud.

At the Edge

As computing expands beyond data centers and to the edge, the software from NGC catalog can be deployed on Kubernetes-based edge systems for low-latency, high-throughput inference. Securely deploy, manage, and scale AI applications from NGC across distributed edge infrastructure with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Building Blocks for GPU-Accelerated Applications

The NGC software catalog provides a range of resources that meet the needs of data scientists, developers, and researchers with varying levels of expertise, including containers, pretrained models, domain-specific SDKs, use case-based collections, and Helm charts for the fastest AI implementations.

Build AI Solutions Faster with All of the Software You Need

Collections makes it easy to discover the compatible framework containers, models, Juptyer notebooks, and other resources to get started in AI faster. The respective collections also provide detailed documentation to deploy the content for specific use cases.

NGC catalog offers ready-to-use collections for various applications, including NLP, ASR, intelligent video analytics, and object detection.

Deploy and Run Workloads Faster with Containers

The NGC catalog hosts containers for the top AI and data science software, tuned, tested, and optimized by NVIDIA. Fully tested containers for HPC applications and data analytics are also available, allowing users to build solutions from a tested framework with complete control.

Accelerate Your AI Projects With Pretrained Models

The NGC catalog hosts pretrained GPU-optimized models for a variety of common AI tasks that ‌developers can use as-is or retrain them easily, thus saving valuable time in bringing solutions to market. Each model comes with a model resume outlining the architecture, training details, datasets used, and limitations. NVIDIA AI Foundation models enable developers to experience the models directly in their browsers, integrate them into applications using APIs or download and run them on Windows machines with RTX GPUs.

Kickstart Your AI Projects with Jupyter Notebooks

Automate Deployments with Helm Charts

Helm charts automate software deployment on Kubernetes clusters. The NGC catalog hosts Kubernetes-ready Helm charts that make it easy to consistently and secure deploy both NVIDIA and third-party software.

NVIDIA GPU Operator is a suite of NVIDIA drivers, container runtime, device plug-in, and management software that IT teams can install on Kubernetes clusters to give users faster access to run their workloads.

Deliver Solutions Faster with Ready-to-Deploy AI Workflows

The NGC catalog features NVIDIA TAO Toolkit, NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server, and NVIDIA TensorRT™ to enable deep learning application developers and data scientists to re-train deep learning models and easily optimize and deploy them for inference.

Customer Stories

DeepZen

Learn how DeepZen, an AI​ company focused on human-like speech with emotions, leverages the NGC catalog to automate processes such as audio recordings and voiceovers. 

Neurala

Learn how AI​ startup Neurala speeds up deep learning​ training and inference for their Brain Builder platform by 8X.

Clemson University

Learn how Clemson University’s HPC administrators support GPU-optimized containers to help scientists accelerate research.

University of Arizona

Learn how the University of Arizona employs containers from the NGC catalog to accelerate their scientific research by creating 3D point clouds directly on drones.

Accelerate Your Workflow with the NGC Catalog

Ecosystem Partners

NVIDIA partners offer a range of data science, AI training and inference, high-performance computing (HPC), and visualization solutions.

Learn how to publish your GPU-optimized software on the NGC catalog.

Resource Center

News

Read about the latest NGC catalog updates and announcements.

Webinars

Walk through how to use the NGC catalog with these video tutorials.

GTC Sessions

Watch all the top NGC sessions on demand.

Developer Blogs

Learn how to use the NGC catalog with these step-by-step instructions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Accelerate Your Workflow With the NGC Catalog

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