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UST and Quicklizard Partner to Deliver Dynamic Pricing Optimization for Retailers

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Partnership to accelerate the delivery of data-infused pricing at scale to leading global brands and retailers
MELBOURNE, Australia and TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has partnered with leading price optimization platform Quicklizard to provide AI-guided data-infused pricing at scale to prominent global brands and retailers. The integration of the Quicklizard platform into UST’s solutions portfolio provides clients with improved operations, experiences, and profitability across their retail value chains by optimizing pricing capabilities. 
This collaboration harnesses Quicklizard’s leading price optimization platform as a core part of UST’s comprehensive retail solutions, delivering best-in-class technology solutions as part of a comprehensive, scientific approach to pricing at scale that is unequivocally aimed at client business success. The partnership seeks to aid clients in maintaining profitability while sharpening their competitive edge within their markets by offering strategic discipline, accurate market intelligence, and stringent implementation procedures.
Even in today’s advanced retail market, pricing managers must still engage in the time-consuming task of manually analyzing a wide range of data sources to inform their pricing choices. This limits managers’ ability to optimize prices to just 5%–15% of their product catalog. However, Quicklizard’s AI-powered dynamic pricing platform enables pricing managers to optimize decisions for 100% of their catalog.
Leveraging the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Quicklizard and UST have developed an innovative platform that adeptly covers all aspects of pricing for retailers, increases efficiency, and accelerates digital transformation. Utilizing an omni-channel approach, Quicklizard’s platform ensures retailers can design bespoke pricing strategies across a wide range of business models. In addition, the platform features a robust pricing engine with pre-defined rules and conditions, automation and management tools, AI capabilities, analytics, and an open interface that allows clients to develop complex pricing strategies without the need to integrate with additional tools. This is in stark contrast to standard price monitoring tools which are predominantly focused on tracking competitors’ prices and making pricing decisions based on this data alone, whereas the joint solution provides the ability to adjust prices in real time based on several critical factors.
These advanced solutions are complemented and enhanced by UST’s AI-powered ‘VERA’ engine, designed by UST Evolve, which supports the mapping and matching of own-brand products across multiple categories. UST Evolve is a global digital business transformation group of strategists, designers, technologists, and domain experts dedicated to solving complex challenges through pragmatic approaches that deliver bold outcomes.
Through the collaboration, UST and Quicklizard are positioned to provide consulting capabilities and wrap-around services to our joint clients, including dynamic pricing solutions, project management, delivery management, and business analysis.
“By integrating our advanced platform as part of a comprehensive UST solution portfolio, we are able to offer the coordination, discipline, market intelligence, and rigor needed to maintain profitability and a competitive edge,” said Pini Mandel, Co-Founder and CEO, Quicklizard.
“The Quicklizard team and solution are a great fit for the UST culture, our emphasis on client-intimacy and our retail solutions portfolio. They are ideal partners in our quest to assist clients seeking to improve operations, experiences, and profitability across the retail value chain by specifically optimizing their pricing capability,” said John Taylor, UK Retail Lead, UST.
This is the latest in a series of high-profile collaborations for UST. Over the past two decades, the company has established itself as a key business transformation partner across a range of industries. For more information on UST and its work driving digital innovation, please visit the UST Newsroom.
About Quicklizard
Quicklizard (TASE: QLRD) transforms pricing into a strategic asset for retailers.
Quicklizard is the leading pricing optimization platform for retailers and brands. Offering retailers, the ability to fully manage their pricing strategies on a single platform that provides the tools, insights and analytics required to achieve pricing excellence.
We provide an advanced pricing infrastructure that makes your business truly thrive across all retail industries from consumer electronics and pet supplies to groceries and point to point airlines. Our Platform is deployed across over 50 markets in both online and offline channels producing millions of price recommendations each month.
To find out more, visit Quicklizard.com
Media Contacts, Quicklizard:Anat Oransky Lev VP of Marketing, [email protected]
About UST
For more than 24 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Through our nimble approach, we identify their core challenges, and craft disruptive solutions that bring their vision to life. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, we embed innovation and agility into our clients’ organizations—delivering measurable value and lasting change across industries, and around the world. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at www.UST.com
Media Contacts, UST:Tinu Cherian Abraham+1 (949) 415-9857
Merrick Laravea+1 (949) 416-6212
Neha Misri+91-9284726602
Roshni Das K+91 [email protected]
Media Contacts, U.S.:S&C [email protected]
Makovsky [email protected]  
Media Contacts, U.K.:FTI [email protected]
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Supermicro Introduces New Servers and GPU Accelerated Systems with AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series CPUs and AMD Instinct™ MI325X GPUs for AI Ready Data Centers

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New Supermicro Systems Enable Customers to Upgrade and Consolidate Data Centers for AI Workloads
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, announces the launch of a new series of servers, GPU-accelerated systems, and storage servers featuring the AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series processors and AMD Instinct™ MI325X GPUs. The new H14 product line represents one of the most extensive server families in the industry, including Supermicro’s Hyper systems, the Twin multi-node servers, and AI inferencing GPU systems, all available with air or liquid cooling options.  The new “Zen5” processor core architecture implements full data path AVX-512 vector instructions for CPU-based AI inference and provides 17% better instructions per cycle (IPC) than the previous 4th generation EPYC processor, enabling more performance per core.

Supermicro’s new H14 family uses the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors which enable up to 192 cores per CPU with up to 500W TDP (thermal design power).  Supermicro has designed new H14 systems including the Hyper and FlexTwin™ systems which can accommodate the higher thermal requirements. The H14 family also includes three systems for AI training and inference workloads supporting up to 10 GPUs which feature the AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPU as the host processor and two which support the AMD Instinct MI325X GPU.
“Supermicro’s H14 servers have 2.44X faster SPECrate®2017_fp_base performance1 using the EPYC 9005 64 core CPU as compared with Supermicro’s H11 systems using the second generation EPYC 7002 Series CPUs,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “This significant performance improvement allows customers to make their data centers more power efficient by reducing the total data center footprint by at least two-thirds2 while also adding new AI processing capabilities. The H14 server family provides the highest performance, density, and power efficiency available through Supermicro’s liquid and air-cooling options, wide selection of system designs, and proven Building Block Solutions.”
For more information about the Supermicro H14 family of products, please visit: www.supermicro.com/aplus 
“Supermicro’s ‘Building Block Solutions’ has enabled it to consistently deliver time-to-market solutions powered by AMD across a variety of compelling system designs,” said Forrest Norrod, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “Our collaboration with Supermicro, along with their in-house engineering design and manufacturing capabilities worldwide combined with their rack-scale integration capability for both air and liquid-cooled systems enables customers of any scale to generate time-to-value from AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs.”
Supermicro’s H14 server lineup consists of the following product families:
Hyper – Supermicro’s flagship enterprise server supports maximum performance from two EPYC 9005 CPUs with up to the maximum 192 cores per CPU at 500W and up to 9TB memory in 24 DIMM slots.  With either a 1U chassis with up to 12 2.5″ NVMe/SATA bays or a 2U chassis with up to 24 2.5″ NVMe/SATA bays, the Hyper’s advanced cooling design accommodates the highest performance CPUs for use in demanding AI inference, enterprise or cloud workloads.
CloudDC – This versatile system is optimized for use in Cloud Data Centers and features a single EPYC 9005 CPU with up to 12 2.5″ NVMe/SATA drive bays in a 1U chassis. It’s designed using the OCP (Open Compute Platform) DC-MHS specification (Data Center Modular Hardware System) which ensures compatibility with OCP standards.
GrandTwin™ – The GrandTwin is a 4-node compute platform using single EPYC 9005 CPU in a very dense 2U form-factor. This system is often used in multi-server cluster applications such as object storage, virtualization, and HPC applications.
FlexTwin™ – The FlexTwin is a 2U 4-node high-performance high-density compute system with dual EPYC 9005 CPUs per node. The advanced liquid-cooling provides high power efficiency and allows the operation of the highest performance EPYC 9005 CPUs for use in HPC, EDA and other demanding workloads.
5U GPU System – Supermicro’s EPYC CPU-based 5U PCIe GPU system supports up to 10 double-width accelerators for design and visualization applications.
4U GPU System (Liquid Cooled) – This highly dense EPYC CPU-based 8-way accelerators platform supports OAM accelerators in the most compact 4U form-factor using advanced liquid-cooling.  It is designed for high-performance AI and HPC applications.
8U GPU System – This 8-way accelerator system uses the AMD Instinct MI325X GPU along with the EPYC 9005 CPU for large-scale LLM AI training. The 8U chassis allows deployment in any air-cooled data center.
Supermicro H14 products with AMD EPYC CPUs are available for customer testing today through Supermicro’s JumpStart program.
Supermicro will present the new H14 solutions at the AMD Advancing AI Day on October 10, 2024, at the San Francisco Moscone Center.
1SPECrate®2017_fp_base of 485 using the Supermicro A+ Server 2023US-TR4 and two AMD EPYC 7702 64 core CPUs (https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q1/cpu2017-20200204-20866.html retrieved October 2, 2024) compared with SPECrate®2017_fp_base of 1670 using the Supermicro AS-2126HS-TN and two AMD EPYC 9555 64 core CPUs.  Results of the AS-2126HS-TN with the 9555 CPU to be published on www.spec.org/cpu2017/results on October 10, 2024.
2Based on the SPECrate®2017_fp_base comparison in footnote (1), reduction in number of systems using the AS-2126HS-TN with the 9555 CPU vs. 2023US-TR4 with the 7702 CPU is 70.9%.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc. Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro’s motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
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MSI Launches AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series CPU-Based Server Solutions, Delivering Leadership Performance and Density in Data Centers

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TAIPEI, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — MSI, a leading global provider of high-performance server solutions, today introduced its latest AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series CPU-based server boards and platforms, engineered to tackle the most demanding data center workloads with leadership performance and efficiency.

Featuring AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors with up to 192 cores and 384 threads, MSI’s new server platforms deliver breakthrough compute power, unparalleled density, and exceptional energy efficiency, making them ideal for handling AI-enabled, cloud-native, and business-critical workloads in modern data centers.
According to Danny Hsu, General Manager of MSI’s Enterprise Platform Solutions, “Our new AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPU-based platforms are not just about raw performance; they represent a strategic leap forward for data centers looking to maximize operational efficiency while minimizing their environmental footprint. These systems ensure that enterprises can stay ahead of evolving industry demands and adapt quickly to new opportunities.”
“5th Gen AMD EPYC Processors deliver the compute capabilities our customers require for their most demanding AI-enabled data center workloads,” said Ravi Kuppuswamy, senior vice president, Server Business Unit, AMD. “Our highly efficient ‘Zen 5’ cores and innovative chiplet-based architecture allowed us to build an advanced, diversified server CPU portfolio that addresses the rapidly evolving needs of our customers and the modern data center.”
DC-MHS Server Solutions Redefining Flexibility and Scalability for Modern Data Centers
MSI’s DC-MHS server solutions address the evolving needs of today’s data centers. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors, the DC-MHS series supports the DC-SCM2 server management module, featuring the Aspeed AST2600 BMC, to significantly enhance server maintainability and operational efficiency, enabling enterprises to deploy high-performance systems with the agility needed to stay competitive in today’s rapidly changing market.
DC-MHS Multi-Node Servers
MSI’s DC-MHS multi-node server platforms house multiple nodes within a single chassis, maximizing space and resource utilization while reducing operational costs, enabling modern data centers to future-proof their infrastructure and enhance operational efficiency. Each platform is powered by a single AMD EPYC 9005 Series processor with up to 500W TDP, supports 12 DDR5 DIMM slots for high memory bandwidth, and an OCP NIC for enhanced connectivity.
CD370-S4051-X2 3U 2-Node Core Compute Server: Supports 12 PCIe 5.0 x4 U.2 NVMe bays per node, delivering high-speed I/O and fast data transfer, and is ideal for AI-enabled and data-intensive workloads.CD270-S4051-X2 2U 2-Node Core Compute Server: Equipped with 6 PCIe 5.0 x4 U.2 NVMe bays per node, delivering fast, scalable compute performance, ideal for virtualization and data analytics.CD270-S4051-X4 2U 4-Node Core Compute Server: Features 3 PCIe 5.0 x4 U.2 NVMe bays per node and liquid-cooled options, excelling in throughput-heavy applications such as cloud environments.DC-MHS Enterprise Server
CX271-S4056 2U Enterprise Server: Features a single AMD EPYC 9005 Series processor, 24 DDR5 DIMM slots with speeds up to 5200MT/s, 8 or 24 2.5 inch PCIe 5.0 x4 U.2 NVMe bays, and PCIe 5.0 x16 OCP NIC slots, it delivers fast, scalable performance. Its flexible design, including GPU acceleration options, makes it ideal for data-intensive workloads such as AI, virtualization, and cloud-native applications in modern data centers.DC-MHS Server Boards
D4056 DC-MHS M-DNO Type-4 HPM: Supports a single AMD EPYC 9005 processor, 24 DDR5 DIMM slots, 2 NVMe M.2 ports, PCIe 5.0 expansion slots, and OCP 3.0 NIC support, this platform is built for memory-intensive and data-driven applications, offering fast data access.D4051 DC-MHS M-DNO Type-2 HPM: Designed for power efficiency with a single AMD EPYC 9005 processor, 12 DDR5 DIMM slots, 2 NVMe M.2 ports, and PCIe 5.0 x16 OCP NIC slot, this board delivers scalable performance for latency-sensitive workloads in a half-width form factor.CXL Memory Expansion Server with 8TB Memory for Data-Intensive Workloads
S2301 2U CXL Memory Expansion Server: Powered by dual AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors and 24 DDR5 DIMM slots, the server is engineered to meet the demands of data centers requiring unparalleled memory capacity and scalability. Leveraging advanced CXL 2.0 technology, the S2301 integrates 8 E3.S 2T drive bays for CXL memory and 8 E3.S 1T NVMe storage, expanding total memory capacity to a remarkable 8TB, making it the ideal solution for data-intensive applications, such as In-Memory Database, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), and High-Performance Computing (HPC).
GPU Servers with 4GPU for AI and High-Performance Computing
The G4101-01 and G4101-03 GPU Servers offer exceptional performance for AI, machine learning, and HPC. Powered by a single AMD EPYC 9005 Series processor with 500W TDP and liquid cooling, these servers feature 12 DDR5 DIMM slots and 4 PCIe 5.0 triple-wide slots supporting GPGPUs up to 450W. With 12 PCIe 4.0 U.2 NVMe drives and Platinum or Titanium redundant 3000W power supplies, they deliver the reliability and power required for the most demanding workloads.
Enterprise Servers for Performance-Critical Workloads and Storage Servers for Smaller Data Centers
MSI’s Enterprise and Storage Server lineup now features support for AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors, offering up to 24 DDR5 DIMM slots and delivering exceptional scalability, performance, and memory bandwidth of up to 6000MT/s.
Enterprise Servers S2206-05-10G, S2206-06-10G, and S1206-02-10G are optimized for high-speed data transfer. These models feature 10G SFP+ Ethernet and are tailored for performance-critical workloads such as AI and machine learning. The S2206-06-10G stands out as the highest-performance model in this lineup, designed for data-heavy tasks requiring maximum I/O throughput. It features 3 PCIe 5.0 x16 FHHL slots and 16 PCIe 4.0 U.2 NVMe drives, combined with 8 SATA/SAS bays to deliver exceptional storage capacity and speed. For environments where 1 Gbps network speed is sufficient, Storage Servers such as the S2206-04 offer cost-effective solutions with strong compute and storage performance at a cost-effective price point, making them ideal for smaller data centers.
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Watch this video to discover how MSI’s 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based servers are redefining data centers for next-generation computing.
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Delegation of International Communication Experts and Foreign Media Outlets Visits Emerging Industry Enterprises in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province

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BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On October 9, 2024, the delegation of international communication experts and foreign media outlets, themed “The World Comes to Zhongshan” and organized by the CICG Academy of Translation and Interpretation, visited several representative enterprises in Zhongshan’s emerging industries to experience the development of these innovative sectors.

At the Sinoscience Fullcryo (Zhongshan) Equipment Manufacturing Co. Ltd., delegation members learned about a large hydrogen liquefier capable of producing five tons of liquefied hydrogen per day. This facility was jointly developed, designed, and manufactured by the company and the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieving the domestic production of large hydrogen liquefiers, with overall performance reaching international advanced levels. Zhongshan has prioritized the hydrogen energy industry and has nurtured several leading enterprises and research institutes in low-temperature technology, thus forming a relatively complete hydrogen energy industrial chain.
At the Zhongshan Institute for Drug Discovery, the delegation received insights into several groundbreaking drugs developed by the institute that are pioneering in both China and globally. The institute is currently working on more than 60 new drugs, with seven of them undergoing clinical trials. This initiative reflects Zhongshan’s commitment to creating a national-level comprehensive platform that integrates biopharmaceutical research and development, technological breakthroughs, platform services, and industrial incubation, all aimed at promoting high-quality development in the biopharmaceutical and health industries within the Greater Bay Area.
During last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, tens of thousands of spectators benefited from seamless video streaming and video calls through a robust 5G network, supported by Tongyu Communication Co. Ltd., based in Zhongshan. The delegation learned that as China’s pioneering manufacturer of base station antennas, the company has established two overseas production bases in India and Thailand, along with six international branches. Its base station antennas are extensively utilized in over 60 countries and regions and have earned certification as a global supplier from leading telecom equipment manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, and Ericsson.
At FCourier, a company specializing in the research, development, operation, and management of high-performance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), flight control systems, and artificial intelligence products, the delegation observed the test flights of two types of UAVs up close. Known for their exceptional performance, the company’s electric vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing UAVs with retractable rotors are sold in multiple Middle Eastern countries. They are effectively applied in various fields, including emergency firefighting, public safety, and energy inspection, and serve as an example of China’s high-end manufacturing going global. Zhongshan aims to gather over 300 relevant enterprises in the industrial chain, achieving an industrial scale exceeding 10 billion yuan, and is committed to establishing a distinctive low-altitude manufacturing industry, which is poised to be a key growth driver for the city’s economy.
Contact: Albert Huang Tel.: 008610-68990638E-mail: [email protected] 
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