World’s First Rackmounted Server/PC

The very first rackmounted PC server in the world was designed, manufactured and installed by CCSI (Computer & Control Solutions, Inc.) for a utilities and energy management and control system at Candler General Hospital in Savannah, GA.

Over 700 sensors and actuators were installed to monitor and control the hospital’s power plant and buildings. The control room included one rackmounted PC XT server with three rackmounted PC workstations along with three rackmounted monitors, running a Novell network.

Chilled water and steam production equipment as well as many other gas and electric appliances were monitored and controlled by the computer network designed and installed by CCSI to optimize the power plant’s energy conversion and production efficiencies. Cogeneration equipment was also designed and implemented to recapture waste heat energy and convert it into usable forms of energy such as steam and chilled water. 

This comprehensive project was one of the CCSI’s first complex integrated systems designed, manufactured and installed by founder, Rockney Alavi in the early 1980’s.

 

CCSI Locations

CCSI occupied three Tucker, GA locations 1580 Stone Ridge Dr. and 1510 Stone Ridge Dr., then 2050 Mountain Industrial Blvd. as we grew then purchased land in Suwanee, GA to build our own facilities and moved temporarily to our present location of 1856 Buford Hwy, Duluth, GA until construction is completed.

   

The old location in Tucker, Georgia, where the company was located in the '90 and early 2000

CCSI Products, Inventions & Development

For over 26 years, CCSI has been building leading edge custom designed systems using nonproprietary industry standard components - for all needs from application servers to storage servers to multimedia workstations to HPC clusters. While the company began in the industrial controls arena our concentration over the past 20 years has been on imaging and IT computer systems as well as OEM and ODM design and fabrication. Our distinguished list of clientele includes AT&T, General Electric, HP, INTEL, NASA, Microsoft, FEMA, Lucent Technology, Federal Aviation Administration, US Navy, US Air Force, US ARMY, Thompson Consumer Electronics, Boeing, Brookhaven National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, L3 Communications, EMCC, Microtouch as well as leading colleges and universities from around the country.

We have a long list of interesting projects over the years but we'll only mention a few of the more recent and outstanding ones here.

• At the SC 2003 Super Computing show in AMD’s booth, we introduced the CCSI Clusteron™, the world’s first free cooling green cluster and data center integrated chassis and cabinet solution to be adequately cooled with ambient air of up to 95F/35C for full throttle performance. Air Conditioning NOT required!

• We worked closely with AMD and TYAN on thermal and power supply issues for rack mount configurations of Dual AMD Athlon™ servers in the development of our ultra cooled RC0103, RC0222, and RC0452 rack cases.

• In 2002, Siemens choose the CCSI RC-0222 server platform for their automated flat mail sorting system sold to the United States Postal Service. Those 5000 systems are still in use today, nine years later, with exceptional reliability.

• In early 2001 we designed the chassis and power supply for Intel's Hamer Rapids 1U dual P3 mezanine motherboard Internet   information appliance

• In June 2001 we were the only company to have an operational 1U Dual AMD Athlon™ system on display at the initial dual Athlon™ product launch at Taiwan Computex show

• In mid 2001 we designed a rack chassis for tape backups on an ODM basis for HP

• In late 2001 we introduced the CCSI Wind Tunnel ™ that "blows away the competition"

• In October, 2001 CCSI was the first to obtain AMD certification for a 1U chassis and power supply platform for dual AMD Athlon™ Processor Servers

• In June 2001 we were the only company to have an operational 1U Dual AMD Athlon™ system on display at the initial dual Athlon™ product launch at Taiwan Computex show

• In mid 2001 we designed a rack chassis for tape backups on an ODM basis for HP

• In late 2001 we introduced the CCSI Wind Tunnel ™ that "blows away the competition"

• In October, 2001 CCSI was the first to obtain AMD certification for a 1U chassis and power supply platform for dual AMD Athlon™ Processor Servers

• In 2000 we designed the first 1U chassis for dual P3 slot 1 processors using Intel's L440GX motherboard

• In 1992 we designed and built the RapidRaid™ Super Server with 25 redundant, hot-swappable hard drives and 10 redundant hot-swappable power supplies for Universal Studios, Amblin Division for use with the seaQuest DSV prime time TV show.

• In 1991 CCSI's Imagination Station, multimedia authoring station, was introduced in the COMDEX Fall 1991 Multimedia Pavilion and featured in the COMDEX Fall 1991 Program & Exhibits Guide. In the following year, The Imagination Station garnered several awards from industry experts and publications.

• In 1985 CCSI designed one of the first rack mounted PC systems (well ahead of IBM's entry into this market segment)

CCSI TRADE SHOW EVENTS
Here are some photos of CCSI trade show participation over the years. CCSI exhibited at a variety of trade shows including early Comdex Shows in Atlanta and Las Vegas; in fact CCSI was instrumental in launching the multimedia pavilion at Comdex in Bally’s Casino. CCSI has exhibited the Clusteron™ Super Computer at the Super Computing shows. In addition to working computer specific trade shows, CCSI has exhibited the CCSI Digital Painter™ fine art reproduction system at Art Buyers Caravan and the Screen and Graphics Expo. CCSI has also shared booth space with Fast Electronics, AMD at SC 2003, Intel during the Hamer Rapids introduction and Tyan Computer Corp. at Computex, Taiwan during the launch of the Dual AMD Athlon™ product family.
CCSI MAGAZINE ARTICLES & REVIEWS

Below are a few examples of the many magazine articles and reviews of CCSI products dating back to pre-internet era. You can see from these clippings that CCSI has always pushed the performance envelope and has had a special emphasis in graphics and multimedia applications as far back as the early 1990’s.