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Kick-start your AI journey with immediate, short-term access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise—for free.

AI, Optimized, Certified, and Supported by NVIDIA and VMware

Experience the difference of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite with hands-on labs for every user. IT administrators will learn best practices for deploying and managing AI with NVIDIA AI Enterprise running on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. AI practitioners will learn how to optimize training and inferencing workloads using AI tools and frameworks, including NVIDIA RAPIDS™, PyTorch, NVIDIA® TensorRT™, TensorFlow, NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server, and more.

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View all of the hands-on labs available through NVIDIA LaunchPad that include VMware Labs below

Synthetic Data Generator for Tabular Data

Best for: AI practitioner

What’s included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA RAPIDS, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS, Pytorch and Megatron Language Modeling

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, NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

Train AI Image Classification Models (VMware vSphere)

Best for: AI practitioner

What’s included:

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

Predict Prices with Accelerated Data Processing

Best for: Data scientist, data engineer

What’s included:

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

Data Processing, Tokenization, and 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

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, NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

Optimize AI and Data Science Workloads (VMware Tanzu)

Best for: Virtualization administrator

What’s included:

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

Experience VMware vSphere Powered by NVIDIA BlueField DPU

Best for: Virtualization administrator, network administrator

What’s included:

  • Products: VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine, NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU
  • Technologies: VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, NSX-T, vSAN

Each lab comes with world-class service and support

Here’s What You Can Expect from NVIDIA LaunchPad Labs

A Hands-On Experience

A Hands-On Experience

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

Ready-to-Use Infrastructure

Ready-to-Use Infrastructure

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

Assistance from Experts

Assistance from Experts

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

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

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

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