`OpenVINO™ Execution Provider for ONNX Runtime <https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers/OpenVINO-ExecutionProvider.html>`_ is a product designed for ONNX Runtime developers who want to get started with OpenVINO™ in their inferencing applications. This product delivers `OpenVINO™ <https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/openvino-toolkit.html>`_ inline optimizations which enhance inferencing performance with minimal code modifications.
OpenVINO™ Execution Provider for ONNX Runtime accelerates inference across many `AI models <https://github.com/onnx/models>`_ on a variety of Intel® hardware such as:
For installation instructions on Windows please refer to `OpenVINO™ Execution Provider for ONNX Runtime for Windows <https://github.com/intel/onnxruntime/releases/>`_.
**OpenVINO™ Execution Provider for ONNX Runtime** Linux Wheels comes with pre-built libraries of OpenVINO™ version 2024.1.0 eliminating the need to install OpenVINO™ separately.
By default, Intel® CPU is used to run inference. However, you can change the default option to either Intel® integrated GPU, discrete GPU, integrated NPU (Windows only).
Invoke `the provider config device type argument <https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers/OpenVINO-ExecutionProvider.html#summary-of-options>`_ to change the hardware on which inferencing is done.
For more API calls and environment variables, see `Usage <https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/execution-providers/OpenVINO-ExecutionProvider.html#configuration-options>`_.
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To see what you can do with **OpenVINO™ Execution Provider for ONNX Runtime**, explore the demos located in the `Examples <https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime-inference-examples/tree/main/python/OpenVINO_EP>`_.
