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
Instant access to practice courses
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
Sign up for LaunchPad to complete a lab in a few simple steps
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- Fill out the registration form and choose a Lab.
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What you can expect with 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
NVIDIA LaunchPad Workflow
Advantages of the LaunchPad experience
Advantages of the LaunchPad experience
- 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.
- 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.