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# Nvidia Nim

The NVIDIA NIM API provides endpoints to create and manage workloads that deploy NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIM) through the NIM Operator. These workloads package optimized NVIDIA model servers and run as managed services on the NVIDIA Run:ai platform.
Each request includes NVIDIA Run:ai scheduling metadata (for example, project, priority, and category) and a NIM service specification that defines the container image, compute resources, environment variables, storage, and networking configuration. Once submitted, NVIDIA Run:ai handles scheduling, orchestration, and lifecycle management of the NIM service to ensure reliable and efficient model serving.