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Corporate Capabilities
KCI is an Arizona Corporation founded in 1996. KCI specializes in the following:
- Architecting high performance computer (HPC) solutions
- HPC consulting on acquisition
- HPC timeline performance modeling consulting
- Storage systems consulting
- RAID disk performance
- Network attached storage (NAS)
- Tape systems
- Hierarchical storage management (HSM) systems
- SAN, homogenous and heterogeneous
- High speed data movement
- Gig E
- 10 Gig E
- Fibre Channel
- InfiniBand
- Functional architecture modeling
- Structured analysis
- HW/SW allocation
KCI Business Areas
There are many times that a company does not have the experience to determine the best method of processing data in a system. There are also many times that U.S. government agencies do not have the technical personnel to review designs from vendors or contractors. KCI is capable of assisting the government or contractors in designing systems that will meet requirements. KCI is capable of working on projects of different durations.
- Short term (less than a week) efforts of attending review meetings to evaluate vendor capabilities, find problems, and suggest solutions
- Medium term (less than a month) activities of assisting a company in determining the best design solution to meet a customer’s requirements
- Long term (year or several years) efforts of assisting a customer with a design process from start to finish.
Past Experience
Architecting Systems
- Architect for state of the art heterogeneous SAN based processing system. KCI engineers participated in architecting, installation, and operation of the system. This system engineering is implemented and in operation
- Architect for future ground system that is in the proposal phase. This is a large processing system and KCI employees have developed architectures to meet the requirements of the system
- Architect for a future processing system that is in the proposal phase. KCI consultans have developed new architectures that are forward looking, not based on equipment available today, but designed based on future projections.
- Architecture support for a system with high data input rates and large processing requirements.
