NVIDIA AI Enterprise Production Branch 6 (PB6)

Overview of Production Branch 6

Production Branches, exclusively available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, are designed to provide stability and security for applications built on NVIDIA AI, offering 9 months of support, API stability, and monthly fixes for high and critical software vulnerabilities. The production branches provide a stable and secure environment to maintain uptime of mission-critical AI applications.

Production Branch 6 Includes:

Frameworks and Libraries:

• CUDA Deep Learning PB6
• DeepStream PB6*
• Holoscan SDK PB6
• Multi-LLM NIM PB6
• PyTorch PB6
• TAO PB6 *
• TensorRT PB6
• Triton PB6
• SPARK Rapids PB6
• Rapids PB6
• cuVS PB6

NVIDIA NIM:

• Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct PB6
• Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct PB6
• Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B PB6
• gpt-oss-120b PB6
• Nemotron 3 Nano PB6
• Retrieval QA E5 Embedding v5 PB6
• Llama Nemotron Embed 1B v2
• Llama Nemotron Rerank 1B v2

Government Ready versions available for all products except SPARK Rapids PB6.

*Product will join PB 6 in the coming month

Government Ready and Air Gap Deployments

PB6 expands support for highly regulated environments.

With the release of Production Branch 6, all containerized software in the production branch collection satisfy government ready requirements. The cuVS binary is also government ready.

Additionally, designated software within the PB6 collection now enables "Air Gap Ready" deployments through secure standard configuration options, supporting a Zero-Trust model for restricted network environments.

How to Identify a Government Ready Image:

To use this specific hardened image, navigate to the repository's Tags tab and look for the purple label indicating Gov ready displayed alongside the tag.

What "Gov ready" means:

This ensures the highest level of security for regulated environments, the x86 container image for this branch is:

• STIG Ubuntu 24.04 hardened
• Supports FIPS 140-2 / 3 validated crypto / uses libraries that support FIPS crypto

Learn more about NVIDIA's hardened image in the AI Software for Regulated Environments White Paper.

Compatible Infrastructure Software Versions

For the optimized performance, it is highly recommended to deploy the supported NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infrastructure software in conjunction with your AI software.

Production Branch 6 (PB6) is compatible with NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infrastructure 8.

Getting Started with Production Branches

Before you start, ensure that your environment is set up by following one of the deployment guides available in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Documentation and review the Production Branch release notes.

Other NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Branches

In addition to Production Branches, NVIDIA AI Enterprise offers two other distinct branches of AI software, each providing different levels of support and use cases:

• Feature Branches (FB): The software branches include the latest versions of NVIDIA AI frameworks, pretrained models, and SDKs that release every month.
• Long-Term Support Branches (LTSB): The software branches include selected AI frameworks and SDKs and provide a 30-month lifecycle with API stability and 12 quarterly patches for high and critical software vulnerabilities.

Learn more in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Release Branches Documentation.

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