NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in accelerated computing and generative AI is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society.

We bring our products and solutions to market with an ecosystem of valued partners through the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). NPN is structured around partner types and competencies, enabling our customers to find the perfect NVIDIA partners to address current business needs and achieve success in today's ever-changing market.

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The NPN ecosystem is comprised of NVIDIA experts who have the knowledge and skills that can help customers solve their most challenging problems and accelerate their business with NVIDIA solutions.

Partner Types

Cloud Partner

Partners who offer hosted software and hardware services in a cloud or managed services model to end-user customers leveraging NVIDIA products.

Data Center Provider

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

Distributor

Partners who are authorized to distribute NVIDIA products to resellers, who, in turn, provide NVIDIA-based solutions to end-user customers.

Education Services

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

Global Systems Integrator

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

Independent Software Vendor

Partners who develop, market, and sell NVIDIA accelerated computing and software-optimized applications designed for commercial and enterprise organizations.

OEM

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

Service Delivery Partner

Partners whose primary business is to deliver professional services and who want to either formalize or expand their usage of NVIDIA-based solutions, platforms, and technologies.

Solution Advisor

Partners whose primary business model is to provide consultation services and expert advice to customers looking to implement NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and technologies.

Solution Provider

Partners who focus on the value-added reselling, which may include integration capabilities, of NVIDIA products, NVIDIA-based solutions, and NVIDIA technologies.

Storage Partner

Partners whose primary business model is to design storage solutions and joint reference architectures with NVIDIA to deliver high-performance computing and artificial intelligence solutions.

Service Delivery Partner: Cloud Services

Partners whose core competency is cloud business and technology consulting and services that deliver innovative solutions to solve customer business challenges.

Solutions Integration Partner

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

Competencies

NPN Partners participate in competencies that help them differentiate their expertise in the marketplace and support the specific needs of customer business models and target markets. Alignment with the NPN Program competencies validates that partners are knowledgeable and have developed subject-matter expertise in key advanced technologies.

Compute

The Compute Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA GPU-, DPU-, and CPU-accelerated computing platforms both on premises and in the cloud for enterprise IT designed to meet the needs of a wide array of use cases. These robust, secure, and energy-efficient infrastructures support develop-to-deploy implementations across all modern workloads, from data center to the edge, while driving scientific breakthroughs and game-changing innovations.

DGX AI Compute Systems

The DGX AI Compute Systems Competency focuses on partners who offer NVIDIA DGX infrastructure platforms to deliver groundbreaking AI performance and faster insights. DGX enables partners to leverage full-stack AI hardware and software solutions with world-class accelerated computing infrastructure, advanced cluster management software, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, accelerating data science pipelines and streamlining the development and deployment of production-grade AI applications. Organizations in every industry use the DGX platform 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 can offer their customers the latest NVIDIA architecture to train, tune, and deploy generative AI models. NVIDIA DGX Cloud is an AI platform designed for enterprises that depend on AI. Optimized to deliver the highest performance for today’s AI workloads, NVIDIA DGX Cloud includes direct access to NVIDIA AI experts who help maximize resource efficiency and utilization.

Embedded Compute

The Embedded Compute Competency focuses on partners who deliver the power of generative AI for robotics and embedded edge AI applications across all industries. Using the NVIDIA Jetson™ platform, these partners give customers the accelerated computing solutions and tools to quickly develop and deploy AI-powered robots, drones, intelligent video analytics (IVA) applications, and other energy-efficient autonomous machines that can perceive and understand the world.

Networking

The Networking Competency focuses on partners who provide NVIDIA-accelerated networking solutions to enterprises, from mainstream data center servers to high-performance supercomputers. NVIDIA-accelerated networking solutions create the secure, robust, and high-performance infrastructure necessary to support develop-to-deploy implementations and storage requirements for the next wave of accelerated computing and AI data centers.

NVIDIA AI

The NVIDIA AI Competency focuses on partners who provide customers with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise cloud-native software platform that streamlines the development and deployment of production-grade AI solutions, including generative AI, computer vision, speech AI, and more. With easy-to-use microservices for optimizing model performance with enterprise-grade security, support, and stability so partners can help customers ensure a smooth transition from prototype to production for enterprises that run their businesses on AI.

NVIDIA Omniverse

The NVIDIA Omniverse™ Competency focuses on partners providing the NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise platform and services to customers for developing generative AI-enabled applications and workflows based on Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD). By developing on Omniverse and OpenUSD, enterprises can transform complex 3D workflows, unify tool and data pipelines, and unlock industrial-scale, physically accurate simulation, allowing them to accelerate product development, deliver immersive customer experiences, and unlock operational efficiencies. Omniverse Enterprise can be deployed on NVIDIA RTX-enabled workstations, on virtual workstations, and in the cloud.

NVIDIA Technologies

The NVIDIA Technologies Competency provides partners with a high-level overview of the use cases, market opportunities, and technologies related to the broad portfolio of NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI solutions that span the largest cloud data centers to tiny autonomous machines. NVIDIA’s leaps in accelerated computing and AI are at the heart of a new industrial revolution that will reshape the world’s industries, helping partners create solutions that unlock breakthroughs in every field—supporting growth, scientific discovery, and a more sustainable future.

NVIDIA Virtual Desktops

The NVIDIA Virtual Desktops Competency focuses on partners who provide end-user computing with NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software, unleashing powerful GPU performance for workloads ranging from graphics-rich virtual workstations to data science and AI. This allows IT to leverage the management and security benefits of virtualization as well as the performance of NVIDIA GPUs required for modern workloads. Enabling NVIDIA GPUs installed in enterprise data center servers to be accessed remotely, NVIDIA vGPU software offering two editions - RTX Virtual Workstations (vWS) and Virtual PC (vPC)—creates virtual GPUs that can be shared across multiple virtual machines, accessed by any device, anywhere.

Visualization

The Visualization Competency focuses on partners who provide GPU-accelerated visual computing solutions to customers, fueling innovation from desktop to data center to cloud. Based on NVIDIA’s latest technologies for AI, ray tracing, and simulation, NVIDIA RTX solutions enable a new generation of applications and workflows that simulate the physical world and create incredible 3D designs and stunning visual effects at unprecedented speeds.

Specializations

NVIDIA specializations are designed to provide our partners with a powerful way to showcase their unique capabilities and differentiated offerings to end-user customers. These specializations validate a partner’s expertise, technical proficiency, and ability to deliver solutions powered by NVIDIA’s cutting-edge technologies. As part of our ongoing commitment to partner success, NVIDIA has recently launched two new specializations—the Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner and the SuperPOD Specialization.

Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partner

The Reference Platform NCP is a Specialization for NPN Cloud Partners that offers AI-accelerated services on NVIDIA-certified full-stack infrastructure. This specialization creates a global ecosystem of partners skilled in delivering the full NVIDIA platform to customers worldwide.

SuperPOD Specialization

The SuperPOD Specialization is for NPN Solution Providers who have completed specialized training and are skilled in the end-to-end delivery of the leading platform for AI development, from DGX BasePOD™ to DGX SuperPOD™. These partners offer advanced expertise in understanding DGX SuperPOD reference architectures and installation, cluster management, AI framework job scheduling, and deploying generative AI with NVIDIA NIMS on large multi-node deployments.

Partner Levels

Registered

The Registered partner is an entry into some of the NPN Partner types. These partners invest in NVIDIA sales and technical training and have access to product, sales, and marketing tools.

Preferred

The Preferred partner invests in a deeper relationship with NVIDIA. These partners work to achieve training, revenue, and other goals and are rewarded with additional benefits.

Elite

Elite partners represent the deepest level of partnership with NVIDIA and demonstrate the highest level of commitment to the partnership.