NVIDIA Holoscan
NVIDIA Holoscan is a domain-agnostic, multimodal AI sensor processing platform that delivers the accelerated, full-stack infrastructure needed for real-time processing of streaming data at the edge or in the cloud.
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Features
Sensor Processing
Build end-to-end sensor-processing pipelines. Prioritizing performance, usability (Python and C++), and production readiness, Holoscan offers seamless I/O integration through bring-your-own (BYO) sensor, AI model inference, and BYO model capabilities.
Low Latency
Use the Holoscan SDK’s data transfer latency tool to measure complete, end-to-end latency for sensor-processing applications.
Reference AI Pipelines
Access AI reference pipelines for radar, high-energy light sources, endoscopy, ultrasound, and other sensor-streaming applications.
Accelerate Sensor Data Processing
NVIDIA Holoscan includes optimized libraries for network connectivity, data processing, and AI, as well as examples to create and run low-latency data-streaming applications across industries using either C++, Python, or Graph Composer. Using the SDK, developers can build pipelines for sensor data processing that meet latency requirements and scale from the cloud to the data center to the edge.
Application Frameworks
NVIDIA Holoscan for Medical Devices
It provides domain-specific capabilities for medical device developers for the clinical edge. It allows companies in the medical device industry to explore new AI-powered capabilities, accelerate time to market, and lower development and maintenance costs for medical-grade devices.
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Atlas Meditech
NVIDIA Holoscan for HPC at the Edge
It is a universal computation imaging platform, purpose-built for high performance while meeting the size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints at the edge. It delivers a flexible software stack across a common high-performance hardware and software platform to accelerate data analysis and visualization workflows at the edge.
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Download the NVIDIA Holoscan SDK
To compile the open-source Holoscan SDK yourself, download it from GitHub.
GitHub SDK Documentation Release Notes
PyPi
Pip Install NVIDIA Holoscan SDK.
Ubuntu Package
Download and install the Debian Package.
NGC Container
Run within the Holoscan Container.
Holoscan Reference Applications
Access an open repository of Holoscan reference applications and operators, including prebuilt examples of end-to-end applications and guidance on how to use, customize, and scale them.
Deltacast
Sensor I/O: GPUDirect Data Ingestion
Sensor I/O with Holoscan reference applications demonstrates the advanced data-ingestion capabilities of NVIDIA® GPUDirect®. Partners like Yuan and Deltacast provide state-of-the-art I/O capture cards that integrate seamlessly with Holoscan, enabling rapid data transfer directly to GPU memory. In addition, Holoscan’s High-Speed Endoscopy reference application leverages Ethernet-based I/O technology for real-time medical imaging, where every millisecond contributes to improved surgical precision and patient outcomes. It shows how a 4K endoscopic video stream at 240Hz can be captured, processed, and displayed with 8-10ms of photon-to-glass, end-to-end latency, demonstrating ultra-low-latency capabilities for safety-critical applications in the medical domain and beyond. Holoscan’s Advanced Network Operator provides a way for users to achieve the highest throughput and lowest latency for transmitting and receiving Ethernet frames out of and into their operators.
Explore the High-Speed Endoscopy Reference Application on GitHub
RTI Connext
DDS-Based Interoperability
Data Distribution Service (DDS)-based interoperability enables the integration of AI into existing medical devices and healthcare systems. By leveraging the DDS standard through RTI Connext, Holoscan allows seamless communication between legacy systems and AI. This reference application helps create AI-powered sidecars that can enhance the functionality of installed devices with compute and real-time connectivity.
Learn More About DDS Operators on GitHub
Orsi
Multi-AI AR-Assisted Surgery
The Multi-AI AR-Assisted Surgery reference application addresses challenges in surgical navigation by integrating 3D anatomical models with real-time endoscopic video. It uses deep learning to segment and overlay surgical tools. By using Holoscan to process endoscopic frames through multiple stages, this reference app delivers real-time augmented reality overlay that provides surgeons with enhanced depth perfection and navigation support. The pipeline is also augmented with video anonymization, which is necessary to ensure privacy and protect patient data.
Explore Orsi Academy Sample Applications on GitHub
iCardio.ai
Multi AI Ultrasound
The Multi AI Ultrasound application shows the capability of running multiple AI inference pipelines simultaneously within a single application. It uses echocardiogram data and models from iCardio.ai to demonstrate advanced medical imaging analysis. By leveraging Holoscan’s Multi AI operators, this reference application can process ultrasound video frames through various preprocessing stages, execute multiple inferences, and generate visualizations.
Explore the Multi AI Ultrasound Reference Application on GitHub
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Bring Your Own MATLAB Algorithm
The MATLAB GPU Coder reference application allows developers to accelerate their MATLAB code base through Holoscan. It provides a detailed configuration and build instructions for creating Holoscan applications that harness the computational power and real-time processing capabilities of Holoscan while utilizing MATLAB’s extensive toolboxes and development environment.
Learn How to Develop Applications With MATLAB GPU Coder on GitHub
OpenIGTLink
Real-Time Visualization With 3D Slicer
This reference application provides a workflow that integrates 3D Slicer with Holoscan. Images can be easily sent from 3D Slicer to Holoscan for running medical AI Inference at the edge. The processed results are then sent back to 3D Slicer for high-quality visualization. By leveraging the strength of both platforms within a single reference application, complex 3D medical data can be used to guide surgical planning, medical research, and advanced diagnostics. This implementation highlights Holoscan's flexibility for sensor AI app building and its easy integration with existing SDKs, enabling seamless customization.
Learn More About Using 3D Slicer With Holoscan on GitHub
IMagic Leap
XR: Volume Rendering
The XR Volume Rendering application demonstrates Holoscan’s capabilities in immersive medical visualization and how it can be integrated with Magic Leap. It shows how real-time, high-quality volume rendering of medical imaging data can be done with augmented reality. Combining Holoscan’s real-time AI processing with Magic Leap’s AR display and spatial tracking shows how XR in medical imaging can help with surgical planning, medical education, and patient consultations.
Learn More About Volume Rendering With Holoscan on GitHubHoloscan Sensor Bridge
Holoscan Sensor Bridge seamlessly handles high-bandwidth data from diverse sensors over ethernet, enabling real-time and high-performance AI processing on NVIDIA Edge AI Platform. It serves as a flexible FPGA interface with standard API and open software.
Holoscan Sensor Bridge v1.10 - NVIDIA Docs
Hardware
Check out the NVIDIA Clara™ for Medical Devices product page to learn how you can deploy your solutions to production using NVIDIA IGX™. To find out more information about our ecosystem partners, including I/O partners and distributors, visit our distributor page.
Jetson, x86 Workstations, and Servers DevKit
Set up your NVIDIA Jetson™ Developer Kits with the Jetson Developer Kit User Guide. This guide is for x86-based machines with NVIDIA Ampere or Turing™ architecture GPUs running Ubuntu 22.04.
IGX DevKit
Set up your NVIDIA IGX Orin™ Developer Kit with the NVIDIA IGX Orin Dev Kit User Guide.
AGX DevKit
Set up your NVIDIA Clara™ AGX Developer Kit with the Clara AGX Dev Kit User Guide.
FAQ
NVIDIA Holoscan is a domain-agnostic AI computing platform that delivers the accelerated, full-stack infrastructure required for scalable, software-defined, and real-time processing of streaming data running at the edge or in the cloud.
It spans hardware and software components that bridge sensors with edge servers, networking, on-premises data centers, and cloud computing with optimized libraries, tools, containers for data processing, as well as template applications to facilitate rapid prototyping, sample AI models for jump-starting training, and core microservices to run streaming, imaging, and other applications.
The Clara AGX and NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kits are Arm-based.
Scroll down to the Clara Holoscan Ecosystem Partners section in the distributor page .
The Clara AGX Developer Kit is the predecessor of the updated NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kit. Read more about our devkits.
| Clara AGX Developer Kit | NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kit | |
| Availability | Now | Q2 2023 |
| SoC | NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier™ | NVIDIA Jetson™ AGX Orin |
| Discrete GPU (dGPU) | NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 | NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
| SmartNIC | NVIDIA ConnectX-6® | NVIDIA ConnectX-7® |
| Networking Bandwidth | 100 GbE / 10 GbE / 1 GbE | 2x 100 GbE / 2x 1GbE |
| SSD | 250GB | 500GB |
