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    riva-translate-1.6b

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    Enable smooth global interactions in 36 languages.

    • NVIDIA NIM
    • Neural machine translation
    • Text Translation
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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=riva-translate-1_6b
    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-translate-1_6b:latest
    

    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 -U 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 Docs.