BECOME A PARTNER

The NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) gives potential partners the opportunity to select the membership that's best for their business and chosen competencies. Regardless of the level of commitment or plans for growth your company chooses, you'll find unique benefits and requirements to help drive your sales.

Partner Types

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER

Partners who provide and/or resell hosted software and hardware services in a cloud or managed services model to customers using NVIDIA solutions.

DISTRIBUTOR

Partners who distribute NVIDIA solutions to entities that integrate or resell those products, solutions, and services. Distributors essentially act as an intermediary between vendors and resellers.

OEM

Partners who utilize NVIDIA products, solutions, and technologies in the systems that they design, manufacture, and sell under their own brand name.

SOLUTION PROVIDER (VAR)

Partners who focus on the value-added reselling of NVIDIA products and NVIDIA-based solutions, leveraging their combined technology expertise and services to meet the business and technical needs of customers.

SOLUTION INTEGRATION PARTNER

Partners who build and sell their own branded systems using NVIDIA-qualified original design manufactured (ODM) platforms. Solutions Integration Partners offer full-stack hardware and/or software installation, implementation, and integration capabilities.

GLOBAL SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR

Partners who specialize in the planning, design, implementation, and project management of solutions that include NVIDIA products and technologies to address customer business and technology needs. GSIs provide multi-national industry expertise and operations around the world.

INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDOR

Partners who develop, market, and sell NVIDIA accelerated GPU or DPU optimized applications designed for commercial and enterprise organizations. ISVs have a deep expertise in a speciﬁc industry or across multiple industries.

SOLUTION ADVISOR – CONSULTANT

Partners who provide consultation services and expert advice to customers looking to implement NVIDIA solutions. SA - Consultants provide deep NVIDIA expertise, often coupled with vertical industry experience.

SOLUTION ADVISOR – DATA CENTER PROVIDER

Partners who offer colocation services, such as high-density data center facilities, interconnect infrastructure, and state-of-art cooling technologies used to host NVIDIA DGX servers globally.

SOLUTION ADVISOR – STORAGE PARTNER

Partners who collaborate with NVIDIA experts to design storage solutions and joint reference architectures to deliver HPC and AI solutions. Storage Partners often have vertical industry expertise, and build fully integrated, ready-to-deploy hardware and software solutions.

SERVICE DELIVERY PARTNER: EDUCATION SERVICES

Partners who have an established education services organization that offers technology training and certification. This program is an invite-only offering that enables qualified partners to deliver NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) education-based training and host workshops with an emphasis on AI, machine learning, deep learning, and accelerated computing.

SERVICE DELIVERY PARTNER: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Partners who offer AI consulting, 3D design, simulation and/or custom AI applications design or related implementation services to customers. Professional Services partners often work with NVIDIA resellers to deploy, configure, customize, and maintain customer installations that use NVIDIA-based solutions.

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Competencies

The program offers several Competencies to differentiate your expertise to customers and maximize the benefits of the NVIDIA Partner Network. Regardless of your company's size, business model, or market focus, alignment with NPN's Product Competencies helps you distinguish and deliver NVIDIA GPU computing solutions in the marketplace.

Compute

High Performance Computing (HPC) is one of the most essential tools powering the advancement of computational science. The Compute Competency focuses on partners who offer GPU-accelerated computing to deliver scientific breakthroughs and game-changing innovations for various industries, including, but not limited to Finance, Higher Education, Industrial, and Automotive.

Compute DGX

This competency includes High Performance Computing (HPC) products that use the power of GPUs to enable computers to learn from data and write software to solve some of the most complex problems in computer science. Whether your customers are focused on training or inference, this Competency authorizes you to deliver HPC and purpose-built DGX systems for the unique demands of AI.

Embedded Edge

This Competency enables you to deliver the power of modern AI at the edge or autonomous machines across all industries. In addition, it fosters your ability to develop products or solutions complementary to the NVIDIA Jetson platform, which is designed for edge applications from AI-powered Network Video Recorders (NVRs), to Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) in high-precision manufacturing, to Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and more.

Virtualization

Virtual GPU solutions bring the power of NVIDIA GPUs to virtual desktops, apps, workstations, and accelerate graphs and compute workloads to make virtualized workspaces accessible to creative and technical professionals working from anywhere. With the Virtualization Competency, you will focus on customers who will benefit from graphics-accelerated desktop and application virtualization.

Visualization

NVIDIA’s visualization platform fuels innovation from the desktop to data center to cloud while delivering unparalleled performance capabilities for professional graphics, rendering, and scalable visual solutions. Whether your customers focus on design and manufacturing, media and entertainment, science and medical imaging, energy exploration, or other markets, the Visualization Competency enables you to deliver the best visual computing solutions to your end customers.

PARTNER LEVELS

Registered

The Registered partner is an entry into some of the NPN Partner types. This partner is investing in NVIDIA Sales and Technical training and has access to product, sales and marketing tools.

Preferred

The Preferred partner invests in a deeper relationship with NVIDIA. These partners reach training, revenue, and other goals and are rewarded with special benefits.

Elite

Elite partners are our highest level of partnership reserved for those partners who demonstrate the highest level of commitment to visual computing.

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