NVIDIA LaunchPad is a free program that gives users short-term access to a large catalog of practice courses. This enables businesses and organizations to instantly access the hardware and software stacks they need and leverage end-to-end solution workflows in AI, data science, 3D design collaboration and simulation, and more.

LaunchPad helps developers, designers and IT professionals accelerate the creation and deployment of modern, data-intensive applications. After rapid testing and prototyping, the same complete stack can be used for production workflows, enabling confident software and infrastructure decisions.

Instant access to practice courses

Are you ready for a hands-on experience with NVIDIA software solutions? Use the registration button to sign up directly and choose from a wide selection of labs.
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Training and deployment of an AI support chatbot

Target audience: AI users
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA Certified Systems™
Technologies: TensorFlow, NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server

Training an AI model for image classification of online products

Target group: AI users
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: TensorFlow, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

Training of a BERT model for NLP applications (Natural Language Processing)

Target group: AI users
Products: NVIDIA Base Command™, NVIDIA DGX™
Technologies: BERT, PyTorch

Training of a comprehensive NLP model with NeMo Megatron

Target group: AI users
Products: NVIDIA Base Command, NVIDIA DGX
Technologies: NeMo Megatron, PyTorch

Interaction with real-time speech AI APIs

Target audience: AI users
Products: NVIDIA® Riva, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs (Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech)

Add voice features to a conversational AI application

Target audience: AI users
Products: NVIDIA Riva, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, Virtual Assistant Application

Fine-tune a speech AI pipeline using your own data for higher accuracy

Target group: AI users
Products: NVIDIA Riva, NVIDIA TAO, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: Riva ASR and TTS APIs, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

Deploying Vision AI in the Network Periphery

Target audience: IT administrators
Products: NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA Fleet Command™, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: NVStreamer

Accelerate data processing and train an AI model to predict prices

Target audience: data scientists, data engineers
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS™, Dask, XGBoost

Accelerate data processing and tokenization and train an AI model to perform sentiment analysis

Target audience: data scientists, data engineers
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: NVIDIA RAPIDS, Pandas, PyTorch, Triton Inference Server

Scaling Data Science with the Domino Enterprise MLOps Platform

Audience: data scientists, data scientists, machine learning engineers, business analysts
Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: RAPIDS, NVIDIA Triton, PyTorch, XGBoost

Configure and optimize VMware vSphere for AI and data science workloads

Target audience: virtualization administrators
Products: Docker, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: NGC registry, container runtime, server virtualization

Configure, Optimize, and Orchestrate Resources for AI and Data Science Workloads with VMware Tanzu

Target Audience: Virtualization Administrators
Products: VMware Tanzu, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA Certified Systems
Technologies: NGC Registry, NVIDIA Operators, Kubernetes, Server Virtualization

Configure, optimize, and orchestrate resources for AI and data science workloads with Red Hat OpenShift

Target audience: IT administrators
Products: Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: NGC Registry, NVIDIA Operators, Kubernetes

Experience VMWare Project Monterey on BlueField 2 DPU

Target audience: virtualization administrators, network administrators
Products: VMware Project Monterey Early Access, NVIDIA BlueField®-2 DPU, NVIDIA Certified Systems

review 3D design projects, experience photorealistic rendering and correct physics

Target audience: project reviewers
Products: NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse View), NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: Omniverse RTX renderer, PhysX, NVIDIA MDL materials

Real-time 3D design collaboration on a physically correct Omniverse scene

Target audience: 3D design users
Products: NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise (Enterprise Nucleus Server, Omniverse Create), NVIDIA certified systems
Technologies: Omniverse RTX™ Renderer, PhysX®, NVIDIA MDL Materials

Sign up for LaunchPad to complete a lab in a few simple steps

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Sign up for NVIDIA LaunchPad.
Free registration

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  1. Fill out the registration form and choose a Lab.

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Follow the steps in the email you received. Once approved for the LaunchPad program, you will have access to the Lab for up to two weeks.

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After your first Lab, you can request to try more Labs in LaunchPad.

What you can expect with LaunchPad

Practical courses

Take advantage of hands-on courses that guide you through the entire process - from infrastructure optimization to application deployment.

Tests

Test prototypes on out-of-the-box infrastructure hosted on Equinix that is all yours for up to two weeks.

Expert advice

Learn at your own pace as needed, with support from NVIDIA experts and documented courses.

Safe purchase decision

Make more confident design and purchasing decisions after your LaunchPad and accelerate your journey.

NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow

In NVIDIA LaunchPad, you'll experience hands-on training with accelerated computing infrastructure, from state-of-the-art DGX SuperPOD™ to mainstream NVIDIA Certified Systems™. After initial successes, you can accelerate your project with confident design and purchasing decisions.

Advantages of the LaunchPad experience

Whether you're an AI developer, data scientist, designer, or IT professional, testing enterprise solutions via NVIDIA LaunchPad offers many benefits.
  • Experience end-to-end workflows while learning about new products and technologies.
  • Get hands-on training in AI, data science, and 3D design.
  • Instant availability - no software installation, feature fine-tuning or data sets required.
  • Try the cloud equivalent of accelerated computing infrastructure worth up to $20,000 for free.
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  • Experience interactive 3D design collaboration and scalable simulation with multiple GPUs as you experiment with Omniverse's core rendering, AI, and simulation technologies.
  • Use hands-on tutorials for 3D designers, artists, engineers, and design project reviewers.
  • Test the same Omniverse enterprise software stack that can be deployed across NVIDIA-certified workstations and servers (using NVIDIA RTX™).
  • Try the cloud equivalent of up to $20,000 worth of accelerated computing infrastructure for free.
  • Learn how to optimally deploy and scale modern, data-intensive applications.
  • Use hands-on exercises for MLOps and infrastructure optimization.
  • Test the same complete software and hardware stack that can be deployed anywhere.
  • Try the cloud equivalent of accelerated compute infrastructure worth up to $20,000 for free.

NVIDIA LaunchPad is available worldwide