About

Infrastructure engineers for the AI era.

Zhang Alpha Research exists for one reason: make accelerated computing boringly reliable — so product teams can be wildly ambitious.

Mission

Own the hard part: GPUs, networking, serving.

Hyperscalers sell you quota. API vendors sell you tokens. We sell you outcomes per dollar — clusters that sustain 90%+ MFU, inference at $0.08/1M tokens, and AI apps with eval-proven quality.

Senior-only team. Former HPC, MLPerf, and platform engineers. We publish benchmarks, not adjectives. If a workload shouldn't be on GPUs, we'll tell you — and cache it.

Bare Metal OpsNCCL / IB TuningvLLM / TRT-LLMK8s / SlurmEval ScienceFinOps
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Principles

How we operate metal.

📏 Measure first

MFU, TTFT, TPOT, $/1M tokens on your prompts — before recommending a single GPU.

🔓 No lock-in

Terraform, open images, portable weights. Leave anytime with your artifacts.

🛡️ Sovereign by default

Your data stays in your VPC/cage. Audit logs, SSO, DPAs.