Open Source at NVIDIA

Engaging with open-source communities accelerates innovation, making it easier for developers to collaborate and build. NVIDIA contributes to important open-source projects—including Docker, JAX, Kubernetes, Linux kernel, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Universal Scene Description (USD)—and leads innovative open-source projects across many domains. NVIDIA also actively contributes to and collaborates with open-standards bodies worldwide.

Explore the innovative open-source projects below to learn more about accelerating your applications.

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Apache

Apache Spark

GPU-accelerated Apache Spark for data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning pipelines

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Apex

A PyTorch extension: Tools for easy mixed precision and distributed training in PyTorch

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AmgX

Distributed multi-grid linear solver library on GPU

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Clara Holoscan SDK

A hybrid computing platform for medical devices, both hardware and software

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Cloud Native Stack

A reference architecture for managing GPU workloads with Kubernetes

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Collective Communication Library (NCCL)

Optimized primitives for collective multi-GPU communication

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Container Toolkit

Allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers.

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CUB

A library of collective primitives and utilities

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CUDA Templates for Linear Algebra Subroutines (CUTLASS)

A collection of templates for high-performance general matrix multiplication (GEMM) computations within CUDA kernels

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CuPy

An open-source array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python and CUDA

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Data Loading Library (DALI)

Data pre-processing in deep learning applications

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Deep Learning Inference Accelerator (NVDLA)

Open-source accelerator for deep learning inference

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Falcor

A real-time rendering framework

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FasterTransformer

Highly optimized transformer-based encoder and decoder component for GPT and BERT models

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Federated Learning Active Runtime Environment (FLARE)

An open-source, extensible SDK that allows researchers and data scientists to adapt existing machine learning and deep learning workflow to a privacy-preserving federated paradigm

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Flang

Flang

A Fortran compiler targeting low-level virtual machine (LLVM)

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GPU Operator

Automates the lifecycle management of the software required to expose GPUs on Kubernetes.

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K8s Device Plug-in

An NVIDIA plug-in that enables GPU support in Kubernetes

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Kaolin Library

PyTorch-based library with modular optimized functionality for 3D deep learning research

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libcu++

C++ standard library for an entire CPU+GPU system supported by CUDA

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Material Definition Language (MDL)

Physically accurate material standard and SDK

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Megatron-LM

Ongoing research for training transformer models at scale

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Merlin

Open-source framework for building high-performing recommender systems at scale

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Milano

Milano is a tool for automating hyper-parameters search for your models on a backend of your choice

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Modulus

A neural network framework for developing Physics-ML models

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MONAI

PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare imaging

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Morpheus

Open-source framework that enables cybersecurity developers to create optimized AI pipelines for filtering, processing, and classifying large volumes of real-time data

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NeMo

An end-to-end, open and interoperable framework for building, customizing, and deploying generative AI models at-scale anywhere.

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NeMo Guardrails

A toolkit for easily developing trustworthy, safe, and secure LLM conversational systems.

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Network Operator

Automates the lifecycle management of the software for accelerated networking on Kubernetes.

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nvcomp

High-performance GPU data compression library

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ONNX-TensorRT

TensorRT backend for ONNX

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Open GPU Kernel Modules

Open-source release of CUDA GPU kernel modules for Linux

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Open Seq2Seq

Toolkit for efficient experimentation with various sequence-to-sequence models

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PhysX

Advanced, true-to-reality physics simulation engine

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PyTorch

PyTorch

An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.

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RAPIDS

RAPIDS

A suite of open-source software libraries and APIs for executing data science pipelines entirely on GPUs.

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rl_games

High-performance reinforcement learning library

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ROS GEMs

Hardware-accelerated packages for the robot operating system (ROS)—deep neural networks (DNNs), perception pipelines, and deep learning software

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Sionna

An Open-Source Library for 6G Physical-Layer Research

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Tacotron 2

PyTorch implementation of Natural TTS Synthesis by conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram predictions

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TensorFlow

TensorFlow

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

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TensorFlow-TensorRT

Integration for TensorFlow with TensorRT to get up to 6X faster inference in TensorFlow with few lines of code

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Thrust

Thrust is a parallel algorithms library that resembles the C++ STL.

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Torch-TensorRT

Integration to PyTorch with TensorRT to get 4X faster inference in PyTorch with one line of code

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Pixar

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)

Open and extensible ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds.

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vid2vid

High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

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AI and Deep Learning

Apache

Apache Spark

GPU-accelerated Apache Spark for data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning pipelines

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Apex

A PyTorch extension: Tools for easy mixed precision and distributed training in PyTorch

Home  |  Github

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Clara Holoscan SDK

A hybrid computing platform for medical devices, both hardware and software

Home  |  Github

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Collective Communication Library (NCCL)

Optimized primitives for collective multi-GPU communication

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Data Loading Library (DALI)

Data pre-processing in deep learning applications

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Deep Learning Examples

Tensor Cores-optimized code samples

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Deep Learning Inference Accelerator (NVDLA)

Open-source accelerator for deep learning inference

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Federated Learning Active Runtime Environment (FLARE)

An open-source, extensible SDK that allows researchers and data scientists to adapt existing machine learning and deep learning workflow to a privacy-preserving federated paradigm

Home  |  Github

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Kaolin Library

PyTorch-based library with modular optimized functionality for 3D deep learning research

Home  |  Github

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Merlin

Open-source framework for building high-performing recommender systems at scale

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MONAI

PyTorch-based framework for deep learning in healthcare imaging

Home  |  Github

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Morpheus

Open-source framework that enables cybersecurity developers to create optimized AI pipelines for filtering, processing, and classifying large volumes of real-time data

Home  |  Github

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NeMo

An end-to-end, open and interoperable framework for building, customizing, and deploying generative AI models at-scale anywhere.

Home  |  Github

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NeMo Guardrails

A toolkit for easily developing trustworthy, safe, and secure LLM conversational systems.

Github

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ONNX-TensorRT

TensorRT backend for ONNX

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PyTorch

PyTorch

An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.

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RAPIDS

RAPIDS

A suite of open-source software libraries and APIs for executing data science pipelines entirely on GPUs.

Home  |  Github

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ROS GEMs

Hardware-accelerated packages for the robot operating system (ROS)—deep neural networks (DNNs), perception pipelines, and deep learning software

Home  |  Github

TensorFlow

TensorFlow

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

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TensorFlow-TensorRT

Integration for TensorFlow with TensorRT to get up to 6X faster inference in TensorFlow with few lines of code

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Torch-TensorRT

Integration to PyTorch with TensorRT to get 4X faster inference in PyTorch with one line of code

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Edge AI and Robotics

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PhysX

Advanced, true-to-reality physics simulation engine

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NVIDIA Community

rl_games

High-performance reinforcement learning library

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Cloud Native Technology

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K8s Device Plug-in

An NVIDIA plug-in that enables GPU support in Kubernetes

Github

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Cloud Native Stack

A reference architecture for managing GPU workloads with Kubernetes

Home  |  Github

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GPU Operator

Automates the lifecycle management of the software required to expose GPUs on Kubernetes.

Home |  Github

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Network Operator

Automates the lifecycle management of the software for accelerated networking on Kubernetes.

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Container Toolkit

Allows users to build and run GPU accelerated containers.

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Design, Visualization, and Simulation

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Falcor

A real-time rendering framework

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Material Definition Language (MDL)

Physically accurate material standard and SDK

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Pixar

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)

Open and extensible ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds.

Home  |  Github  |  Proposals

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

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AmgX

Distributed multi-grid linear solver library on GPU

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CUB

A library of collective primitives and utilities

Home  |  Github

NVIDIA

CUDA Templates for Linear Algebra Subroutines (CUTLASS)

A collection of templates for high-performance general matrix multiplication (GEMM) computations within CUDA kernels

Home  |  Github

NVIDIA

CuPy

An open-source array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python and CUDA

Home  |  Github

Flang

Flang

A Fortran compiler targeting low-level virtual machine (LLVM)

Github

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libcu++

C++ standard library for an entire CPU+GPU system supported by CUDA

Github

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Modulus

A neural network framework for developing Physics-ML models

Home  |  Github

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nvcomp

High-performance GPU data compression library

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Open GPU Kernel Modules

Open-source release of CUDA GPU kernel modules for Linux

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Thrust

Thrust is a parallel algorithms library that resembles the C++ STL.

Home  |  Github

Research

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FasterTransformer

Highly optimized transformer-based encoder and decoder component for GPT and BERT models

Github

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Kaolin Library

PyTorch-based library with modular optimized functionality for 3D deep learning research

Home  |  Github

NVIDIA

Megatron-LM

Ongoing research for training transformer models at scale

Github

NVIDIA

Milano

Milano is a tool for automating hyper-parameters search for your models on a backend of your choice

Github

NVIDIA

Open Seq2Seq

Toolkit for efficient experimentation with various sequence-to-sequence models

Home  |  Github

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PhysX

Advanced, true-to-reality physics simulation engine

Home  |  Github

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Sionna

An Open-Source Library for 6G Physical-Layer Research

Home  |   Github

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Tacotron 2

PyTorch implementation of Natural TTS Synthesis by conditioning WaveNet on Mel Spectrogram predictions

Github

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vid2vid

High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

Github

Source code for many NVIDIA Research projects is freely available for research purposes. Also, visit our SDK Glossary page for a more comprehensive list of our SDK and Library offerings.