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Supercomputing Advancements - Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) emphasizes its long history of major discoveries facilitated by supercomputing, leading to interesting science advancements [1] - The OLCF's Frontier, the nation's first exascale supercomputer, solves problems 100 to 1,000 times faster than before, enabling the pursuit of multiple problems simultaneously [2][3] - Discovery represents the next evolution, converging high-performance computing, quantum computing, and AI, integrating quantum into high-performance computing architectures [4] - Discovery will set a new standard for sovereign AI and leadership computing, improving upon Frontier in almost every way [5] Technology and Partnerships - Discovery will feature HPE's new GX platform and AMD's newest GPU, built in close collaboration with HPE and AMD [6][7][11] - Lessons learned from Frontier will directly translate to Discovery, making it a better machine [7] Applications and Impact - Exascale computing enables flight-scale simulations, addressing turbulent flow fields in GE engines, impacting approximately 1 million people flying on GE engines [8][9] - AI streamlines processes in the nuclear power space, enhancing the design, construction, and operation of nuclear power plants [9][10] - The combination of nuclear energy and AI has tremendous power to create good for the world [10] - Discovery increases productivity and contributes to U S competitiveness through leadership in AI and computing [11] Future Vision - The ultimate goal is to create digital twins of humans for personalized medicine, testing treatments and life choices in real-time [7][8] - Discovery is a scientific instrument that will enable faster, farther, and deeper insights than any previous machine [12]

Core Technology & Solution - The company transforms video into actionable operational insights by leveraging camera feeds and point-of-sales data, offering over 100 pre-built templates [1] - The company provides solutions to make any camera smarter, utilizing edge devices manufactured by Supermicro, which bring data center server power to retail locations and warehouses with AI acceleration [2] - The company emphasizes the use of physical AI or multimodal AI, specifically computer vision, to address retail challenges and improve insights by combining video data with point-of-sales information [3] Retail Applications & Benefits - In drive-through scenarios, the company's solution analyzes video to track customer journeys, identify bottlenecks, and integrate point-of-sales data to understand wait times in the context of order size [4][5] - The company's technology enhances order accuracy in the food sector by comparing video data with order details before fulfillment [5] - The company's solution aids in loss prevention by using vision context to verify rebates and fund transactions, reducing exceptions [5][6] Edge Computing & Deployment - The company offers readily available solutions that can be deployed through system integrators, emphasizing edge processing for computer vision use cases due to compliance (GDPR, California regulations) and bandwidth concerns [7][8] - Retailers seek complete solutions that offer a return on investment (ROI) and a favorable total cost of ownership (TCO) when investing in technologies like this [9] Future Trends & Flexibility - The company highlights the importance of flexible platforms for physical and multimodal AI that enable experimentation and efficiency improvements through low-code approaches [10]

AI & Retail Industry Focus - AI agents are the next level of AI, bringing outcomes to retail environments, where operational efficiency is key due to slim margins and budgets [2] - Retailers need to implement AI but often don't know where to start; solutions like Wobot offer easy accessibility [3][4] - The industry emphasizes speed of service and frictionless online-to-offline experiences, making checkout experience optimization a high-ROI starting point [6] Wobot's Solution & Technology - Wobot's video agents on the edge minimize bandwidth throughput while leveraging existing infrastructure to deliver outcomes in retail [3] - Wobot offers 100 automated out-of-the-box use cases, turning existing infrastructure into business intelligence insights [5][6] - Wobot enables integration with other systems, correlating visual data with transactional data for multimodal analysis [7][8] - Wobot combines data sets like QoS transaction level data to understand customer behavior and its impact on sales [8] - Wobot provides trend-level and predictive analytics, enabling retailers to make informed decisions [9] - Wobot's AI allows a human-centric view, freeing humans from base-level tasks to focus on high-impact work [9]

Retail Industry Trends - Retailers face increasing cost pressures and need to maximize value from their infrastructure [2][3] - Store modernization is a significant trend, with retailers seeking single infrastructure solutions for agile feature releases and fleet-level management [6] - Retailers are consolidating physical hardware and applications in stores to achieve more with less [7] - The "store of the future" concept is accelerating due to advancements in AI hardware [8] StorMagic's Solution - StorMagic focuses on the edge retail environment, providing solutions for those with limited budgets and IT staff [4] - StorMagic offers simple licensing based on per server and per storage, avoiding complexities related to cores or CPUs [5] - StorMagic's solution is designed to future-proof businesses, with no software cost impact from running more AI-driven applications [5] - StorMagic's hyperconverged infrastructure solution (SVHCI) is a rip and replace for VMware, reducing lifetime TCO [10][11] Collaboration and Technology - AMD hardware is breaking ground in performance and sustainability, influencing retailers' technology adoption [9] - StorMagic collaborates with HPE to provide integrated solutions on AMD platforms, reducing friction in the market [9][10] - The integrated technology stack of StorMagic, AMD, and HPE offers performative solutions for retailers [9]

Retail IT Challenges & Solutions - Retailers face challenges including thin margins, lack of on-site IT staff, and the critical need for infrastructure to sustain operations [1] - Downtime in larger retailers can cost $9,000 per minute, highlighting the importance of uptime [2] - AMD, HPE, and StorMagic offer solutions focused on efficiency, sustainability, and ease of deployment for retail environments [3][4][8] Technology & Product Highlights - The AMD EPYC processor and HPE DL145 server are designed for sustainability and cost-effectiveness without sacrificing performance [3] - StorMagic's software, combined with efficient hardware, reduces total cost of ownership and allows for scalable growth [4] - HPE DL145 Gen11 ProLiant server with integrated StorMagic is designed for edge deployment, with acoustics suitable for store floors (under 45 dBA) and filtering capabilities for challenging environments [7][8] - AMD CPUs offer high core density (up to 192 cores) and a node-based licensing model, simplifying budgeting and allowing for flexible hardware upgrades [5][6] - AMD 8004 series CPUs are energy-efficient, offering leadership in performance per watt per dollar [8] Partnership & Value Proposition - The partnership between AMD, HPE, and StorMagic provides validated, readily deployable solutions for retailers [5] - StorMagic emphasizes trust and reliability at the edge, ensuring stores remain operational [9]

Industry Focus - AMD focuses on the retail and e-commerce sectors, showcasing its EPYC Server Business Unit at NRF Europe 2025 [1] - The retail industry is seeing trends that enable AI use cases at the edge [2] Partnerships - AMD partners with StorMagic, experts in virtualization at the edge for retail [2] - AMD collaborates with Wobot AI, a multimodal AI company providing insights at the edge with a low-code, no-code platform [2] - AMD partners with Supermicro to host a Happy Hour event, engaging with customers alongside Wobot and StorMagic [2] Technology and Solutions - StorMagic specializes in virtualization at the edge, particularly in the retail space [2] - Wobot AI offers a physical AI, multimodal AI platform for solving insights at the edge in retail [2]

Edge Computing & AI Solutions - AMD focuses on edge-focused, hyper-converged infrastructure to support applications solving specific market problems [2] - Wobot concentrates on building a model plus layer to demonstrate the return on investment of their application in quick-serve restaurants, retail, manufacturing, and stadiums [3] - AMD aims to integrate solutions like StorMagic and Wobot into OEM platforms, offering cost-effective virtualization at the edge with AI capabilities [4] - The combined software solution enables customers to leverage AI integrated solutions on existing hardware, with multiple vendor options powered by AMD for future refreshes [11][12] Retail Industry Focus - Retailers operate with small budgets at the store level, emphasizing the total cost of ownership [6] - The solution aims to solve the problem of converging multiple data streams for retailers, reducing endpoint hardware [7] - Camera technology consolidates various functions, replacing IoT sensors and enabling customer counting and conversion rate tracking [9][10] - Edge-based virtualization and multimodal AI are critical to support various markets, including retail, public sector, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing [12][13] Key Benefits - StorMagic operates on as few as two nodes for high availability, simplifying video components and potentially replacing other data source analyzers [8] - The integrated solution offers best-in-class, cost-effective virtualization at the edge, bundled with AI capabilities for generative AI, physical AI, computer vision, and multimodal integration [4] - The solution enables retailers to achieve new outcomes and insights previously unattainable, highlighting that the data center is not the edge [5]

AI Technology & Trends - The industry is seeing widespread AI adoption, with AI at the edge becoming a reality [3] - Multimodality and video language models are evolving from legacy object detection models [3] - Traditional CNN and DNN-based models are maturing and merging with generative AI and agentic AI [7] Wobot AI Platform & Solutions - Wobot AI provides operational insights across loss prevention, speed of service in quick-serve restaurants, and customer experience [4] - Wobot AI utilizes existing CCTV security cameras and relevant data sources like point of sales data or access control data [5][6] - Wobot AI offers ready-to-go templates for various industries that can be added to existing cameras [8] - Wobot AI provides a no-code tool that allows operators to create and deploy use cases without engineering backgrounds [8][9] - Wobot AI's no-code tool enables fine-tuning and modification of use cases on the fly, even through a prompt-based interface [11][12] Partnerships & Deployment - Wobot AI, AMD, and Supermicro are collaborating on a complete solution targeting a specific server for distribution [12] - Wobot AI deployed solutions across 200 locations for a large-scale drive-through operator in the UK in less than a week [11]

Hello, I'm Aaron Behman, Global Lead for Retail and E-commerce at AMD, part of the Server Business Unit. I'm here in Paris at NRF Europe, and I'm joined by Marc Del Vecchio, who heads up business development for edge and computer vision at Supermicro. Marc, great to see you, man.How are you. Yeah, thanks for having us out here. I really appreciate it.Absolutely. So maybe share with me some of the big trends that you're seeing here at NRF or just in general. Sure, absolutely.Well, you know, AI has been the b ...