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NVIDIA GPU-Optimized VMI

NVIDIA Corporation

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NVIDIA GPU-Optimized VMI

NVIDIA Corporation

(4 arviot)

Maximize GPU performance for your Deep Learning, Machine Learning & HPC applications with this image

Deploy a VM instance with NVIDIA’s VM image certified for maximum performance on NVIDIA GPUs, and easy access to NVIDIA NGC.

The NVIDIA GPU-Optimized VMI is a virtual machine image for accelerating your Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science and HPC workloads. Using this VMI, you can spin up a GPU-accelerated Compute Engine VM instance in minutes with a pre-installed Ubuntu OS, GPU driver, Docker and NVIDIA container toolkit.

This VMI provides easy access to NVIDIA's NGC Catalog, a hub for GPU-optimized software, for pulling & running performance-tuned, tested, and NVIDIA certified docker containers. The NGC catalog provides free access to containerized AI, Data Science, and HPC applications, pre-trained models, AI SDKs and other resources to enable data scientists, developers, and researchers to focus on building and deploying solutions.

This GPU-optimized VMI is free with an option to purchase enterprise support offered through NVIDIA AI Enterprise.



NVIDIA GPU-Optimized AMI includes:
  • Ubuntu Server OS
  • NVIDIA Driver
  • Docker-ce
  • NVIDIA Container Toolkit
  • Azure CLI, NGC CLI
  • Miniconda, JupyterLab, Git


This VMI does not support NVIDIA GPU A10. Please use this NVIDIA GPU-Optimized VMI with vGPU driver



For information on documentation and release notes please check NVIDIA GPU-Optimized VMI documentation

Enterprise support for business is offered through NVIDIA AI Enterprise licenses that need to be purchased separately.

The benefits of enterprise support include

Broad Platform Support:
Full enterprise grade support for every deployment option including bare metal, virtualized, containerized, GPU and CPU, and public cloud

Access to NVIDIA AI Experts:
8-5 local business hours for guidance on configuration and performance, including access to engineering

Priority notifications:
Latest security fixes and maintenance releases

Long term support:
For up to 3-years for designated software branches

Customized support upgrade options:
Including a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) and Business Critical support for 24x7 live agent access

Learn more NVIDIA AI Enterprise Overview NVIDIA AI Enterprise Support Where to buy NVIDIA AI Enterprise Free support for VM images is available through NVIDIA Developer Forum