JAX Toolbox provides a public CI, Docker images for popular JAX libraries, and optimized JAX examples to simplify and enhance your JAX development experience on NVIDIA GPUs. It supports JAX libraries such as MaxText and Pallas.

Frameworks and Supported Models

We support and test the following JAX frameworks and model architectures. More details about each model and available containers can be found in their respective READMEs.

Build Pipeline Status

Components	Container	Build	Test
	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:base		[no tests]
	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:jax
	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:equinox		[tests disabled]
	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:maxtext
	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:axlearn			ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:alphafold		[no tests]

In all cases, ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:XXX points to latest nightly build of the container for XXX. For a stable reference, use ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:XXX-YYYY-MM-DD.

In addition to the public CI, we also run internal CI nightlies on GB300, B300, GB200, B200, DGX Spark, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, Jetson AGX Thor, H100 SXM 80GB, A100 SXM 80GB.

Environment Variables

The JAX image is embedded with the following flags and environment variables for performance tuning of XLA and NCCL:

There are various other XLA flags users can set to improve performance. XLA flags can also be tuned per workload based on specific performance needs.

Versions

Profiling

See this page for more information about how to profile JAX programs on GPU.

NVIDIA Staging Containers

JAX-Toolbox staging container hosts pending NVIDIA-authored XLA and JAX enhancements for NVIDIA GPU. These are pending PRs that are awaiting upstream review and merge in OSS OpenXLA and JAX repositories. For this initiative, we are publishing scale-training tagged containers - jax-scale-training.

Pipeline	Container	Schedule
scale-training.yaml	ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:jax-scale-training	Every other Saturday, 00:00 UTC

The dedicated scale-training workflow runs every Saturday at 00:00 UTC and publishes containers every other Saturday, starting on April 18, 2026. Refer to this page STAGING.md for more information on the underlying XLA staging branch, the pending PRs included. The page also lists the corresponding JAX commit used.

Staging releases:

The underlying CUDA container, used for building -scale-training containers, can be seen from the corresponding dated version in the Versions tab.

To check the versions of libraries in the container, you can simply run:

docker run --rm --gpus all ghcr.io/nvidia/jax:jax-scale-training-2026-04-24 -c '
echo "=== CUDA Toolkit ===" && echo ${CUDA_VERSION}
echo "=== cuDNN ===" && echo ${CUDNN_VERSION}
echo "=== NCCL ===" &&  echo ${NCCL_VERSION}
echo "=== Python Packages ===" && pip list | grep -iE "jax|flax|equinox|optax|chex|orbax|numpy|scipy|nvidia-"
'

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

docker run -it --shm-size=1g ...

slurmstepd: error: pyxis:     [INFO] Authentication succeeded
slurmstepd: error: pyxis:     [INFO] Fetching image manifest list
slurmstepd: error: pyxis:     [INFO] Fetching image manifest
slurmstepd: error: pyxis:     [ERROR] URL https://ghcr.io/v2/nvidia/jax/manifests/<TAG> returned error code: 404 Not Found

JAX on Public Clouds

• AWS
  • Add EFA integration
  • SageMaker code sample
• GCP
  • Getting started with JAX multi-node applications with NVIDIA GPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine
• Azure
  • Accelerating AI applications using the JAX framework on Azure’s NDm A100 v4 Virtual Machines
• OCI
  • Running a deep learning workload with JAX on multinode multi-GPU clusters on OCI

Resources

• JAX | NVIDIA NGC Container
• Slurm and OpenMPI zero config integration
• Adding custom GPU ops
• Triaging regressions

Videos

• Equinox for JAX: The Foundation of an Ecosystem for Science and Machine Learning
• Scaling Grok with JAX and H100
• JAX Supercharged on GPUs: High Performance LLMs with JAX and OpenXLA
• What's New in JAX | GTC Spring 2024
• What's New in JAX | GTC Spring 2023