The agreement restricts NVIDIA SDKs (including CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, and cuDNN), NVIDIA drivers, and NVIDIA Omniverse to use solely on systems with NVIDIA Platforms, prohibiting their use on non-NVIDIA hardware.
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This provision establishes a binding hardware restriction on core NVIDIA developer and simulation tools, including the widely used CUDA toolkit. Customers who operate heterogeneous computing environments combining NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA accelerators should evaluate whether any workflows involving these SDKs or Omniverse cross into non-NVIDIA hardware contexts.
Under this clause, NVIDIA SDKs such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, and cuDNN, as well as NVIDIA drivers and Omniverse, are licensed for use only on systems running NVIDIA Platforms; use of these components on non-NVIDIA hardware would fall outside the permitted license scope.
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Compare across platforms →"8.15 NVIDIA Platform Requirement. The following proprietary Software components are licensed solely to run on systems with NVIDIA Platforms: (a) NVIDIA software development kits (such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, cuDNN), (b) NVIDIA drivers, and (c) NVIDIA Omniverse.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision is a commercial hardware restriction and does not directly engage privacy or data protection frameworks.
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This provision establishes a binding hardware restriction on core NVIDIA developer and simulation tools, including the widely used CUDA toolkit. Customers who operate heterogeneous computing environments combining NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA accelerators should evaluate whether any workflows involving these SDKs or Omniverse cross into non-NVIDIA hardware contexts.
Under this clause, NVIDIA SDKs such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, and cuDNN, as well as NVIDIA drivers and Omniverse, are licensed for use only on systems running NVIDIA Platforms; use of these components on non-NVIDIA hardware would fall outside the permitted license scope.
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