NVIDIA LaunchPad

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.

  • All
  • AI
  • Data Science
  • 3D Design Collaboration and Simulation
  • Infrastructure Optimization
Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

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
Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products

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
Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products

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

Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

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

Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

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
Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

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
Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

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
Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

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

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)
Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

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

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
Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

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

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
Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Audience: Data scientist, data engineer, machine learning engineer, business analysts
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: RAPIDS, NVIDIA Triton, PyTorch, XGBoost

Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

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
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 VMware Tanzu

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes
Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

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

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

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
Train and Deploy an AI Support Chatbot

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
Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products

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
Train an AI Model for Image Classification of Online Products

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

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
Train a Large-Scale NLP Model with NeMo Megatron

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
Deploy Vision AI at the Edge of the Network

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
Interact with Real-Time Speech AI APIs

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
Add Speech Capabilities to a Conversational AI Application

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

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)
Accelerate Data Processing and Train an AI Model to Predict Prices

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

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
Scale Data Science with Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

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

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
Review 3D Design Projects, Experience Photorealistic Rendering and Physics

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
Configure and Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

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
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 VMware Tanzu

Best For: Virtualization administrator

What’s Included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes
Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

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

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

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

Join LaunchPad to Take a Lab in a Few Easy Steps

1

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

2

On the lab’s information page, fill out the LaunchPad form.

3

Follow the steps in the email sent to you. Once approved for the LaunchPad program, you will be given access to the lab for up to two weeks.

4

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

What to Expect on LaunchPad

Run curated labs

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

Test and prototype on ready-to-use infrastructure

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

Learn from documented, self-paced experiences

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

Make more confident design and purchase decisions

After LaunchPad, make more confident design and purchase decisions to accelerate your journey.

NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow

NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow

NVIDIA AI LaunchPad is hosted in Equinix’s world-class facilities. The platform speeds the development of complex AI models using DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA Fleet Command, and pretrained models from NVIDIA NGC. It also supports scaling mainstream AI on NVIDIA-Certified servers distributed across the network. These industry-standard servers are ideal for running the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite on VMware vSphere to scale AI workloads in the modern hybrid cloud.

Advantages 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.
  • It’s instantly available—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.