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megatron-1b-nmt

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Follow the steps below to download and run the NVIDIA NIM inference microservice for this model on your infrastructure of choice.

Step 1
Generate API Key

Step 2
Pull and Run the NIM

$ docker login nvcr.io Username: $oauthtoken Password: <PASTE_API_KEY_HERE>

This command launches NIM container on any of the supported GPUs.

export NGC_API_KEY=<PASTE_API_KEY_HERE> export CONTAINER_NAME=megatron-1b-nmt docker run -it --rm --name=$CONTAINER_NAME \ --runtime=nvidia \ --gpus '"device=0"' \ --shm-size=8GB \ -e NGC_API_KEY=$NGC_API_KEY \ -e NIM_HTTP_API_PORT=9000 \ -e NIM_GRPC_API_PORT=50051 \ -p 9000:9000 \ -p 50051:50051 \ nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/riva-nmt:1.3.0

It may take a up to 30 minutes depending on your network speed, for the container to be ready and start accepting requests from the time the docker container is started.

Step 3
Test the NIM

Open a new terminal and run following command to check if the service is ready to handle inference requests

curl -X 'GET' 'http://localhost:9000/v1/health/ready'

If the service is ready, you get a response similar to the following.

{"ready":true}

Install the Riva Python client package

sudo apt-get install python3-pip pip install nvidia-riva-client

Download Riva sample clients

git clone https://github.com/nvidia-riva/python-clients.git

Run Text to Text translation inference

python3 python-clients/scripts/nmt/nmt.py --server 0.0.0.0:50051 --text "This will become German words" --source-language-code en --target-language-code de

Above command will translate the text from English to German and output will be as shown below.

## Das werden deutsche Wörter

For more details on getting started with this NIM, visit the Riva NIM NIM Docs.