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NGC Catalog

Simplify deep learning, machine learning, and HPC workflows with GPU-optimized software.

GPU-Optimized Software Hub for AI, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

The NGC™ catalog is a hub of GPU-optimized AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics software that simplifies and accelerates end-to-end workflows. With enterprise-grade containers, pre-trained AI models, and industry-specific SDKs that can be deployed on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, enterprises can build best-in-class solutions and deliver business value faster than ever before.

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Trusted by Organizations, Big and Small

Government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, supercomputing sites, higher education, and even AI startups are using software from the NGC catalog to build their next-generation applications.

100+ Containers for HPC and AI

100+ Pre-trained Models

250M+ Users

1M+ Downloads

A Platform for All Use Cases

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

Deep learning models for Language Modelling

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.

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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.

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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.

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Translation

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

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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.

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Automatic speech recognition refers to transcribing customer interactions into text

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.

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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.

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High performance computing fuels the advancement of computer science

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.

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Enterprise-Ready

Performance

From deep learning containers that are updated on a monthly basis for extracting maximum performance from your GPUs to the state-of-the-art AI models used to set benchmark records in MLPerf, the NGC catalog is a vital component in achieving faster time to solution and shortening time to market.

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Security

Containers undergo rigorous security scans for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), crypto keys, private keys, and metadata before they’re posted to the catalog.

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Privacy

The NGC Private Registry provides a secure, cloud-native space to store your custom containers, models, model scripts, and Helm charts and share that within your organization. Access to the NGC Private Registry is available to customers who have purchased Enterprise Support with NVIDIA DGX™ or NVIDIA-Certified Systems™.

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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

NGC catalog software runs on a wide variety of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated platforms, including NVIDIA-Certified Systems, NVIDIA DGX systems, NVIDIA TITAN- and NVIDIA RTX™-powered workstations, and virtualized environments with NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server.

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.

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Building Blocks for GPU-Accelerated Applications

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

CONTAINERS
MODELS
HELM CHARTS
COLLECTIONS
INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

NGC containers provide powerful and easy-to-deploy software

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.

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NGC catalog offers pre-trained models for a variety of common AI tasks

Jumpstart Your AI Projects with Pre-trained Models and Resources

Get a head start with pre-trained models, detailed code scripts with step-by-step instructions, and helper scripts for a variety of common AI tasks that are optimized for NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs. Models can be easily re-trained by updating just a few layers, saving valuable time.

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NVIDIA GPU Operator Helm chart is a suite of NVIDIA drivers

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.

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NGC catalog offers ready to use Collections for various applications

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.

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NVIDIA DeepStream SDK for Intelligent Video Analytics

Deliver Solutions Faster with Ready-to-Deploy AI Workflows

The NGC catalog features NVIDIA Transfer Learning 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.

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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.

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Neurala

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

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Clemson University

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

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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.

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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.

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Resource Center

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News

Read about the latest NGC catalog updates and announcements.

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Webinars

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

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GTC Sessions

Watch all the top NGC sessions on demand.

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Developer Blogs

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

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NGC Catalog Frequently Asked Questions

What does the NGC catalog provide?

The NGC catalog provides a comprehensive collection GPU-optimized containers for AI, machine learning, and HPC that are tested and ready to run on supported NVIDIA GPUs on premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. In addition, the catalog provides pre-trained models, model scripts, and industry solutions that can be easily integrated into existing workflows.
What challenges does the NGC catalog address?

Compiling and deploying deep learning frameworks can be time consuming prone to errors. Optimizing AI software requires expertise. Building models requires expertise, time, and compute resources. The NGC catalog takes care of these challenges with GPU-optimized software and tools that data scientists, developers, IT, and users can leverage so they can focus on building their solutions.
What is in the NGC catalog containers?

Each container has a pre-integrated set of GPU-accelerated software. The stack includes the chosen application or framework, NVIDIA CUDA® Toolkit, accelerated libraries, and other necessary drivers—all tested and tuned to work together immediately with no additional setup.
What AI software is available from the NGC catalog?

The NGC catalog features the top AI software, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, NVIDIA TensorRT, RAPIDS™, and many more. Browse the NGC catalog to see the full list.
Where can I run the NGC catalog software?

The NGC catalog containers run on PCs, workstations, HPC clusters, NVIDIA DGX systems, on NVIDIA GPUs on supported cloud providers, and NVIDIA-Certified Systems. The containers run in Docker and Singularity runtimes. View the NGC documentation for more information.
How do I run containers from the NGC catalog on a cloud service provider?

NVIDIA offers virtual machine image files in the marketplace section of each supported cloud service provider. To run an NGC container, simply pick the appropriate instance type, run the NGC image, and pull the container into it from the NGC catalog. The exact steps vary by cloud provider, but you can find step-by-step instructions in the NGC documentation.
How often are the AI containers from the NGC catalog updated?

The most popular deep learning software such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet are updated monthly by NVIDIA engineers to optimize the complete software stack and get the most from your NVIDIA GPUs.
If there’s no charge to download the AI containers, do I pay for compute time?

There’s no charge to download the containers from the NGC catalog (subject to the terms of use). However, for running in the cloud, each cloud service provider will have their own pricing for GPU compute instances.
Is the NGC catalog a cloud computing platform?

No, it’s a catalog that delivers GPU-optimized software stacks.
What is the NGC private registry?

The NGC Private Registry was developed to provide users with a secure space to store and share custom containers, models, model scripts, and Helm charts within their enterprise. The Private Registry allows them to protect their IP while increasing collaboration.
What kind of support does NVIDIA offer for these AI containers?

Users get access to the NVIDIA Developer Forum, supported by a large community of AI and GPU experts from the NVIDIA customer, partner, and employee ecosystem.

In addition, NGC Support Services provides L1-L3 support on NVIDIA-Certified Systems, available through our OEM partners.
What is NVIDIA-Certified Systems?

NVIDIA-Certified Systems, consisting of NVIDIA EGX™ and HGX™ platforms, enable enterprises to confidently choose performance-optimized hardware and software solutions that securely and optimally run their AI workloads—both in smaller configurations and at scale. See full list of NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
What are the terms of use for the NGC catalog?

Please see ngc.nvidia.com/legal/terms

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NGC Catalog

GPU-Optimized Software Hub for AI, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing

Trusted by Organizations, Big and Small

100+ Containers for HPC and AI

100+ Pre-trained Models

250M+ Users

1M+ Downloads

A Platform for All Use Cases

Language Modeling

Recommender Systems

Image Segmentation

Translation

Object Detection

ASR

Text-to-Speech

HPC

Enterprise-Ready

Performance

Security

Privacy

Run Anywhere with Confidence

On Premises

In the Cloud

At the Edge

Create AI Applications Faster with NVIDIA TAO

Building Blocks for GPU-Accelerated Applications

Deploy and Run Workloads Faster with Containers

Jumpstart Your AI Projects with Pre-trained Models and Resources

Automate Deployments with Helm Charts

Build AI Solutions Faster with All of the Software You Need

Deliver Solutions Faster with Ready-to-Deploy AI Workflows

Customer Stories

DeepZen

Neurala

Clemson University

University of Arizona

Ecosystem Partners

Resource Center

News

Webinars

GTC Sessions

Developer Blogs

NGC Catalog Frequently Asked Questions

What does the NGC catalog provide?

What challenges does the NGC catalog address?

What is in the NGC catalog containers?

What AI software is available from the NGC catalog?

Where can I run the NGC catalog software?

How do I run containers from the NGC catalog on a cloud service provider?

How often are the AI containers from the NGC catalog updated?

If there’s no charge to download the AI containers, do I pay for compute time?

Is the NGC catalog a cloud computing platform?

What is the NGC private registry?

What kind of support does NVIDIA offer for these AI containers?

What is NVIDIA-Certified Systems?

What are the terms of use for the NGC catalog?

Accelerate Your Workflow With the NGC Catalog

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