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The following figure illustrates the high-level architecture of the DVD with Deep North. The Dell hardware consists of Dell PowerEdge and VxRail equipped with Nvidia GPU processing. VMware Edge Compute Stack runs on top of Dell’s hardware. This facilitates consolidation of existing workloads in VM or container format that runs alongside the Deep North video analytics VM. The software requires the GPU to accelerate computer vision and machine learning algorithms, leveraging the Nvidia GPU passthrough feature. This feature enables VMs to have direct access to an internal Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) GPU. Once the VM has direct access to the internal GPU, it can inference a large amount of camera feeds to produce meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPI).