Join the NVIDIA Partner Network

The NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) gives you the opportunity to select the membership that's best for your 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 success.

Partner Types

Cloud Service Provider

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

Data Center Provider

Partners who provide colocation services such as high-density data center facilities, interconnect infrastructure, and state-of-art cooling technologies for hosting NVIDIA® DGX™ servers globally.

Distributor

Partners who are authorized to distribute NVIDIA products to resellers of NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and NVIDIA technologies.

Service Delivery Partner - Cloud Services

Partners who provide cloud business and technology consulting and services that deliver innovative solutions to solve customer business challenges.

OEM

Partners who use NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and technologies in the platforms that they manufacture and resell under their own brand name.

Service Delivery Partner - Education Services

Partners who have an existing education services organization and would like to either formalize or expand their training and certification offerings.

Solution Provider (VAR)

Partners who focus on the value-added reselling of NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and NVIDIA technologies.

Service Delivery Partner - Professional Services

Partners who have a professional services organization and offer AI consulting, 3D design, simulation, and/or custom AI application design or related implementation services to customers

Solutions Integration Partner

Partners who build and sell their own branded systems using NVIDIA-qualified original design manufactured (ODM) platforms.

Solution Advisor – Consultant

Partners who provide consultation services and expert advice to customers looking to implement NVIDIA-based solutions or technology.

Global Systems Integrator

Partners who specialize in the planning, design, implementation, and project management of solutions that include NVIDIA products and technologies to address their customers’ business and technology needs.

Solution Advisor – Storage Partner

Partners who design storage solutions and joint reference architectures with NVIDIA to deliver high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

Independent Software Vendor

Partners who develop, market, and sell NVIDIA accelerated GPU- or DPU-optimized applications designed for commercial and enterprise organizations.

Competencies

The NPN Program offers several competencies that help partners differentiate their expertise in the marketplace, and support the specific needs of your business models and target markets. Alignment with the NPN Program competencies validates that, as a partner, you’re knowledgeable and have developed subject-matter expertise in key advanced technologies. NVIDIA training curricula will help you learn, demonstrate, and validate your knowledge in the competencies that will be important for helping customers succeed. Regardless of your company’s size, business model, or market focus, alignment with NPN competencies helps partners rise above the competition to successfully position and deliver industry-leading, NVIDIA-based solutions to customers.

NPN program competencies are designed to accelerate the following targeted workloads:

Compute

The Compute Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing platforms for enterprise IT, integrated across hardware and software. This robust, secure infrastructure supports all modern workloads from the data center to the edge, while driving scientific breakthroughs and game-changing innovations. Compute partners bring unprecedented performance, scalability, and security to every data center.

DGX AI Compute Systems

The DGX AI Compute Systems Competency focuses on partners who offer fully integrated infrastructure solutions built on NVIDIA DGX™ systems to deliver groundbreaking AI performance and faster insights. Organizations in every industry use DGX supercomputers to power AI projects at the forefront of innovation, shatter world records, and solve the previously unsolvable.

DGX Cloud

The DGX™ Cloud Competency focuses on partners who provide customers with NVIDIA Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) & Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) turnkey solutions for AI development with DGX SuperPOD™ performance in the cloud.

Embedded Compute

The Embedded Compute Competency focuses on partners who deliver the power of modern AI for autonomous machines at the edge and other embedded applications across all industries . Using the NVIDIA Jetson™ platform, these partners give customers the tools to quickly develop and deploy AI-powered robots, drones, IVA (Intelligent Video Analytics) applications, and other autonomous machines that can perceive and understand the world.

Networking

The Networking Competency focuses on partners who offer NVIDIA-accelerated networking solutions to enterprises, from mainstream data center servers to high-performance supercomputers. Customers use the NVIDIA networking infrastructure to support develop-to-deploy implementations across all modern workloads and storage requirements, enabling a new era of accelerated computing to maximize AI investments.

NVIDIA AI

The NVIDIA AI Competency focuses on partners who provide customers with an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics containers and pre-trained models. These solutions are optimized, managed, and certified to deploy anywhere from the enterprise data center to the public cloud to the edge, for acceleration of AI workflows in development and production. Global enterprise support is included to keep AI projects on track, enabling organizations to focus on harnessing the business value of AI.

NVIDIA HPC

The NVIDIA High-Performance Computing (HPC) Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA technologies with HPC software solutions that accelerate the workloads of modern HPC and cloud-native supercomputing to fuel the advancement of computational science

NVIDIA Omniverse

The NVIDIA Omniverse™ Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software and supported applications to customers, enabling them to build and operate metaverse applications that can be deployed from workstation to cloud. NVIDIA Omniverse solutions allow teams to connect and customize complex 3D pipelines, operate large-scale simulations of physically accurate virtual worlds, and connect virtual worlds with the physical world for creating digital twins.

NVIDIA Technologies

The NVIDIA Technologies Competency provides partners a high-level overview of the use-cases, market opportunities, and technologies related to NVIDIA’s broad portfolio of solutions. With special processors and full-stack computer science that reinvents chips and systems, system software, and applications, NVIDIA work spans the largest cloud data centers to tiny autonomous machines.

NVIDIA Virtual Desktops

The Virtual Desktops Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) software– including RTX™ Virtual Workstations (vWS) and NVIDIA Virtual PCs (vPC), to customers for deployment on NVIDIA GPUs in cloud or enterprise data center servers.

Visualization

The Visualization Competency focuses on partners who provide visual computing GPUs to customers, fueling innovation from the desktop to the data center to the cloud. These powerful systems deliver unparalleled performance to accelerate visualization, rendering, virtualization, simulation, AI workloads, and capabilities.

DGX SuperCloud

The DGX™ SuperCloud Competency focuses on partners who provide customers with NVIDIA Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) & Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) turnkey solutions for AI development with DGX SuperPOD™ performance in the cloud.

Compute DGX

The Compute DGX competency focuses on partners who offer fully integrated NVIDIA DGX™ systems to deliver groundbreaking AI performance and faster insights. Organizations across industries use DGX supercomputers to power their AI projects at the forefront of innovation, shatter world records, and change the world.

The Compute DGX competency includes the Compute competency and DGX products to drive AI workloads.

Virtualization

The Virtualization competency focuses on customers who deploy NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software on a physical GPU in a cloud or enterprise data center server to create virtual GPUs that can be shared across multiple virtual machines. NVIDIA vGPU software enables powerful performance for workloads ranging from graphics-rich virtual desktops and workstations to data science and AI.

The Virtualization competency includes NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), NVIDIA Virtual Applications (vApps), NVIDIA RTX™ Virtual Workstation (vWS) software and graphics-rich visualization workloads – including CloudXR and Omniverse.

Embedded Edge

The Embedded Edge competency delivers the power of modern AI for autonomous machines and other embedded applications across all industries. The NVIDIA Jetson platform combined with the JetPack SDK, pre-trained models and application frameworks gives customers the tools to quickly develop and deploy robots, drones, IVA applications, and other autonomous machines that can perceive their environment and make real-time decisions.

The Embedded Edge competency includes the Jetson platform products to deliver AI at the edge solutions.

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.

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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