Retailers Can Leverage AI to Increase Revenue
and Reduce Costs with Supermicro and
NVIDIA's Collaboration
SAN
JOSE, Calif. and NEW
YORK, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- National
Retail Federation (NRF) -- Supermicro, Inc. (SMCI),
a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and
5G/Edge, is showcasing the latest solutions for the retail industry
in collaboration with NVIDIA at the National Retail Federation
(NRF) annual show. As generative AI (GenAI) grows in capability and
becomes more easily accessible, retailers are leveraging NVIDIA NIM
microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform,
for a broad spectrum of applications.
"Supermicro's innovative server, storage, and edge computing
solutions improve retail operations, store security, and
operational efficiency," said Charles
Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "At NRF, Supermicro
is excited to introduce retailers to AI's transformative potential
and to revolutionize the customer's experience. Our systems here
will help resolve day-to-day concerns and elevate the overall
buying experience."
To learn more about Supermicro's AI solutions for retail
organizations, visit www.supermicro.com/RetailAI
Innovation in front-of-house and back-of-house use cases – such
as personalized shopping experiences, automating logistical
processes, and preventing shrinkage – enable retailers to attract
customers to their establishments and improve their
profitability.
Supermicro at NRF
Retail AI solutions like the ones mentioned above require
specialized hardware to deliver optimal results. Supermicro offers
the industry's broadest portfolio of edge AI solutions, giving
retail organizations the tools to optimize the ROI of their
AI-based applications. By processing data directly where the
customers are located, results are delivered with minimal latency,
creating an exceptional user experience. At NRF, Supermicro is
showing the latest systems designed to deliver high-end performance
to retail locations:
- SYS-112B-FWT: This 1U, short-depth system offers
powerful edge compute, utilizing the latest Intel Xeon processors.
Despite being less than 17" in depth, it can hold NVIDIA L40S
GPUs.
- AS -1115S-FWTRT: Leveraging AMD's EPYC series
processors, this 1U, short-depth system offers customers
flexibility in both core counts and GPU capability by having the
capacity to hold a single double-width NVIDIA L40S GPU.
- SYS-E403-14B: A compact
server capable of delivering data center performance at remote and
space-constrained locations. This compact system can accommodate 2
single-width or 1 double-width GPU cards, including the NVIDIA L40S
or NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPU, in remote edge
locations.
- SYS-212B-FN2T: The 2U, short-depth edge AI system offers
more features and capacity compared to the competition and supports
multiple data streams or workloads. Optimized for inferencing at
the edge, the SYS-212B-FN2T supports up to 2 double-width GPU or
single-width GPUs, such as the NVIDIA L4 GPU.
- SYS-222HE-TN: A 2U powerhouse, this dual-processor
system features the latest Intel Xeon processors bringing data
center power into a shorter-depth platform. With the ability to
hold up to 3 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, it brings serious inferencing power
to the customer.
- AS -2115HE-FTNR: A uniprocessor, 2U system based on the
latest AMD EPYC family. This system offers a maximum dual-width GPU
density of 4 cards such as NVIDIA L40S GPUs.
- SYS-322GA-NR: For the most demanding workloads, this
powerful and versatile 3U edge AI platform offers 10 PCIe 5.0 x16
slots or 20 PCIe 5.0 x8 slots (in physical x16 slots). These slots
can be fitted with up to 8 double-width GPU cards, such as NVIDIA's
H100 GPU leveraging NVIDIA NVLink. Alternatively, the system can be
configured with 19 single-width GPU cards, such as NVIDIA's
low-profile or single-width product families, or combined with
different add-on cards, such as graphics controllers, making this
system ideal for environments including large control rooms.
An AI use case on display at the Supermicro booth is a customer
service application built with the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for digital
humans. It features James, a computer interface that mimics the
experience of interacting with a real person. Digital humans are
virtual avatars that look, act, and think like a human would. In
retail, this technology can be deployed to provide customers with a
personalized shopping experience, a shopping assistant, and a
customer service representative all in one solution.
A second live demo is the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for retail
shopping assistants, a generative AI reference workflow designed to
transform shopping experiences online and in stores. The blueprint
provides the technologies for building shopping assistants that can
search for multiple items simultaneously, answer contextual
questions like whether a product is waterproof, and visualize
furniture in physically accurate scenes, such as a customer's
living room.
A third use case being demonstrated harnesses the NVIDIA AI
Blueprint for video search and summarization to combat the growing
issue of shrinkage. Shrinkage occurs when products leave a store
and are not paid for. Loss due to shrinkage costs retailers an
estimated $100+B annually in the US alone. By using AI-based
solutions, retailers can interpret camera input in real time and
identify mix-ups at the checkout as they occur, providing direct
feedback to the retail store and the customer.
NRF visitors can find Supermicro at booth #3165. At the NRF 2025
Expo, January 12-14 in New York City, Supermicro and NVIDIA are
collaborating to introduce retailers to AI's transformative
potential. For more information, visit
https://nrfbigshow2025.smallworldlabs.com/co/super-micro-computer-inc
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