Rack a Mole
The standard height of a typical rack mount server assembly inside a datacenter.
What is 42U?
(6.125 feet)
The first stage of the New Product Introduction (NPI) process within ZT's product lifecycle, where major design changes are made to the base rack design.
What is Engineering Validation Test (EVT)?
Name the nvidia GPU product that in 2022 powered the majority of GPU racks for Artificial Intelligence workloads.
What is nvidia A100 (Ampere, May'20)?
The team at ZT who owns managing the relationship between ZT and the customer.
What is Field Sales? (account team)
Three letter acronym that describes the #1 Cloud Infrastructure company.
What is AWS?
(Amazon Web Services)
The four main categories of Racks that ZT sells to it's Cloud customers.
What are Compute, Storage, GPU, Specialty?
(bonus for 5G/Edge)
The final stage of ZT's product development process where a product goes into high volume.
What is MP? (Mass Production)
The codename of AMD's current flagship processor used in highend servers.
What is Genoa?
(4th gen AMD EPYC CPU, Nov'22... replaces Milan)
The key ZT meetings each week where major internal decisions are taken for each key customer.
What is Strategy Meeting?
While also a color, this is the brand name of the #2 Cloud Computing company in the world.
What is Azure?
The new flagship compute rack family at Amazon.
What is Hopper?
The ZT NPI stage when L10 and L11 rack samples are built and tested externally and internally for design finalization. Derivative products often initiated in this or later stage.
What is Design Validation Test (DVT)?
Name the current market leading GPU solution that is ramping into the marketplace for AI workloads.
What is nvidia H100 (Hopper, Sept'22)?
The team at ZT who owns collecting customer demand, managing supply, and collecting Purchase Orders.
Who is Customer Operations? (Customer Ops)
The three most common forms of Cloud infrastructure sold to end customers. Also called "layers".
What are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS?
The upcoming flagship GPU rack family at Microsoft that is powering AI workloads.
What is Gridcoin? (C2789)
The ZT NPI development stage when full scale L11 production racks are built for optimal yield and factory readiness.
What is Production Validation Test (PVT)?
The codename for Intel's flagship processor for datacenter infrastructure.
What is Sapphire Rapids?
(4th gen Intel Scalable CPU, Jan'23... replaces Granite Rapids)
The team at ZT who owns BOM alignment between ZT and the customer and logging it in our production systems.
Who is ZT Agile Team?
The Azure and AWS instance series that correspond to General Purpose Compute.
What is Azure D-series and AWS M-series?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes
The upcoming flagship 5G Edge compute solution that ZT sells to Verizon.
What is Galene?
The point in the product development lifecycle when a product is no longer considered to be NPI.
What is PV Exit?
Name the next-generation GPU solution from AMD that is targeted to compete with nvidia H100.
What is AMD Instinct MI-300X?
The team at ZT who manages schedules and works a new rack product through the NPI lifecycle towards PV exit and mass production (MP).
Who is ZT Product Operations? (Product Ops)
The Azure IaaS instance type that includes GPU enabled virtual machines.
What is Azure N-Series?
NVadsA10v5= Nvidia A10 + AMD Milan CPU
NDm_A100_v4 =nvidia A100 + AMD Rome CPU
NC_A100v4 = nvidia A100 + AMD Milan CPU
NDv2 = nvidia Tesla V100 + Intel Skylake CPU