Your purchase may include one or more of the following from the DGX software stack:
NVIDIA Mission Control
- Recommended software for DGX Vera Rubin NVL72, B200/B300 and DGX GB300/GB200 systems.
As a part of integrated software delivery licensing, the following is included with NVIDIA Mission Control:
- NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM) for cluster management and provisioning
- NVIDIA Run:ai for AI workload management and GPU orchestration
- NVIDIA Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) for managing InfiniBand scale-out computing environments. May require additional hardware appliances
- NVIDIA NetQ for unified observability across NVLink and Ethernet, providing real-time visibility, monitoring, and troubleshooting for datacenter network fabrics and NVLink Switch telemetry.
- NVIDIA Mission Control delivers additional capabilities not included with these other NVIDIA products. These additional capabilities are delivered through NVIDIA Base Command only to customers who purchased NVIDIA Mission Control. To stay up to date on current functionalities and what’s supported on your DGX system, see NVIDIA Mission Control documentation.
NVIDIA Base Command Manager (BCM)BCM is included in multiple NVIDIA products. Choose your installation path based on what you purchased:
- If you purchased NVIDIA Mission Control: BCM is included as a core component with full cluster management capabilities. Follow the Mission Control installation instructions below.
- If you purchased NVIDIA AI Enterprise: BCM is included with NVIDIA AI Enterprise for basic cluster management. Installation and activation are handled through the NVIDIA AI Enterprise workflow. See the NVIDIA AI Enterprise section below.
- Free-to-use BCM License (No Purchase Required): If you did not purchase a solution for managing your AI or HPC cluster, NVIDIA Base Command Manager is available for free for up to eight accelerators per system. This free-to-use offer does not include support. Learn more here.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- Recommended for all DGX systems and included in the DGX Software Bundle for DGX systems
- Provides a suite of software optimized to streamline AI development and deployment. Learn more about it here.
DGX Software Bundle
- Includes licensing for NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Base Command (combines Base Command Manager, Magnum IO, UFM, and DGX OS into a single package.)
- NVIDIA DGX OS
DGX OS is now included with your system purchase.
- DGX OS provides a customized installation of Ubuntu Linux with system-specific optimizations and configurations, additional drivers, and diagnostic and monitoring tools. It provides a stable, fully tested, and supported OS to run AI, machine learning, and analytics applications on DGX Supercomputers. The software packages included in the DGX OS software stack are also available and installable on top of a vanilla Ubuntu distribution and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Refer to NVIDIA Base OS for more details.
DGX System Software and Firmware
- Includes firmware components for Compute
- Includes specialized drivers, diagnostic tools, and monitoring capabilities
Magnum IO
- Utilizes storage IO, network IO, in-network compute, and IO management to simplify and speed up data movement, access, and management for multi-GPU, multi-node systems. Learn more about it here.
Base Command Manager Free-to-use License
- If you did not purchase a solution for managing your AI or HPC cluster, NVIDIA Base Command Manager is available for free for up to eight accelerators per system. This free-to-use offer does not include support. Learn more here.