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NVIDIA Run:ai and NVIDIA Mission Control work together.
From the published profiles: one can integrate the other.
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| Fact | NVIDIA Run:ai | NVIDIA Mission Control |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Platform | Platform |
| Layers | Operations & orchestration | Operations & orchestration |
| What it is | NVIDIA Run:ai is a Kubernetes-based platform that pools GPUs and schedules AI workloads across teams using quotas, priorities and fair sharing, so a shared cluster can serve notebooks, training and inference without each team owning fixed hardware. | NVIDIA Mission Control is operations software for AI factories built on DGX and GB200/GB300 NVL72 systems. It brings cluster provisioning, Slurm and Kubernetes scheduling, health checks, automated recovery, power policies and building management integration into one supported control plane. |
| Who needs it | Organizations where several teams share one GPU cluster and argue over access, or where GPUs are statically assigned and sit idle while other jobs wait. Typical users are platform teams running Kubernetes for data science, research and inference, enterprises consolidating GPU spend, and AI cloud providers that need quotas and governance per customer. | Teams operating NVIDIA DGX B200/B300 or GB200/GB300 NVL72 clusters, for which NVIDIA lists Mission Control as the recommended software. Owners of GB200/GB300 NVL72 systems need it in practice, since NVIDIA's documentation states those systems require Mission Control for installation and management. It also suits AI cloud operators who want to add partner tools for tenant isolation, such as vCluster or Netris, to an NVIDIA-supported base. |
| What it is not | Low GPU utilization is not automatically recoverable waste. Run:ai's own documentation explains that the scheduler cannot always deliver full quotas because of cluster fragmentation, topology constraints, node failures or over-subscription. In our view, idle time caused by slow data loading or very small jobs is also something a scheduler alone cannot fix. Run:ai is not an inference server or model runtime; it schedules workloads such as NVIDIA Dynamo deployments rather than serving models itself. The product page shows availability and utilization multipliers without stating a baseline, so this profile does not repeat them. NVIDIA sells Run:ai through AI Enterprise and Mission Control, and its product page lists KAI Scheduler, Grove and Model Streamer as open source projects from Run:ai. | Mission Control is not presented as a general-purpose tool for any vendor's servers: NVIDIA's documentation calls it recommended software for DGX B200/B300 and GB200/GB300 NVL72 systems (required for GB200/GB300 NVL72), and Dell Technologies, HPE and Supermicro have validated it for their NVL72 systems. It is not a separate alternative to Run:ai, because Run:ai is included in the purchase. Not every resilience tool is bundled: the NVIDIA Resiliency Extension must be installed separately. NVIDIA's recovery-speed and power-efficiency figures are vendor statements, not guarantees for a given site, and the Domain Power Service is listed as an early preview. |
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| Runs on | SaaS control plane (NVIDIA-managed), Self-hosted on premises, Private cloud, Public cloud Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, OKE), OpenShift, Hybrid environments | On premises (DGX SuperPOD and NVL72 clusters), Air-gapped environments, Partner OEM NVL72 systems (Dell, HPE, Supermicro) |
| Availability and licensing | Commercial platform. NVIDIA states that NVIDIA AI Enterprise now includes Run:ai, and Run:ai is also included with NVIDIA Mission Control. Partners (OEMs, ISVs, cloud partners) offer Run:ai integrations. The product page lists KAI Scheduler, Grove and Model Streamer as open source projects from Run:ai. | Commercial software sold as NVIDIA Mission Control with NVIDIA Enterprise Support. The purchase includes Base Command Manager, Run:ai, UFM and NetQ under integrated licensing. The Domain Power Service is offered as an early preview. |
| When something simpler is enough | A single team with a handful of GPUs, or a workload that runs on one machine, does not need a cluster scheduler. Managed cloud Kubernetes with autoscaling may cover bursty demand without shared quotas. Teams already well served by Slurm can stay with it. For developers and small teams who want Kubernetes-native GPU scheduling without the commercial platform, NVIDIA points to the open-source KAI Scheduler. | Smaller clusters of standard GPU servers that already run Slurm or Kubernetes with existing monitoring rarely need Mission Control. If the only gap is fair GPU sharing between teams, Run:ai on its own may be enough; if the gap is provisioning and cluster management, Base Command Manager alone can cover it. Teams renting GPUs from a cloud provider rely on the provider's managed scheduling and health tooling instead. |
| Last reviewed | 9 Oct 2026 | 9 Oct 2026 |
| Official resources | Product page (opens in a new tab) Documentation (opens in a new tab) | Product page (opens in a new tab) Documentation (opens in a new tab) |
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