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The solution architecture uses an award‑winning Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure or edge‑hardened Dell PowerEdge servers to offer a scalable, unified technology architecture that is validated to work with VMware Edge Compute Stack, Nvidia GPU, and Deep North. Together, these technologies support the multiple use cases and various workloads for smart retail outcomes.
The Dell Validated Design for Retail Edge with Deep North takes advantage of an existing validated design with VMware. Deep North software resides on a VM running on Dell hardware with a VMware hypervisor layer. This approach provides a platform and opportunity for a retailer to migrate and consolidate other workloads already running on-site onto the same hardware. This simplifies systems management across a retail fleet. Deep North’s VM has direct access to the Nvidia GPU using passthrough functionality to accelerate its computer vision and machine learning algorithms.
This solution includes the following components: