Qualified Servers
A server that is qualified has undergone thermal, mechanical, power, and signal integrity qualification to ensure that the accelerated hardware is fully functional in that server design. Servers in qualified configurations are supported for production use.
NGC-Ready Systems
NGC-Ready™ servers consist of NVIDIA GPUs installed in qualified enterprise class servers which have passed an extensive suite of single-node tests that validate their ability to deliver high performance running NGC containers. GPUs must be one or more of the following: NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core, T4 Tensor Core, and RTX™ 6000/8000 GPUs. For more details on this designation, please see this page.
NOTE: The NGC-Ready Systems program has been replaced by the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program. All new GPUs will be covered only by the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, although customers can still purchase a wide range of NGC-Ready Systems and still be fully supported.