from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
University of London Computing Centre
ULCC
<body, education> (ULCC) One of the UK's national high
performance computing centres. It provides networking
services and large-scale computing facilities which are used
by researchers from all over the UK.
ULCC was founded in 1968 to provide a service for education
and research. It has been at the forefront of advanced
research computing since its foundation, initially providing
large-scale {CDC}-based facilities, then from 1982 to 1991 a
national {Cray} {vector} supercomputing service. Its high
performance computing facilities are now centred on a 6
processor, 4 Gbyte {Convex C3860} {supercomputer} (Neptune)
with a Convex C3200 front-end (Pluto).
ULCC is the main site for national and international network
connections in the UK. They run the {Network Operations and
Service Centre} for the {JANET Internet Protocol Service}
(JIPS), the largest of the {JANET} {NOCs} and various
international links and relays on behalf of {UKERNA}.
ULCC's pilot {National Data Repository} service provides a
network-accessible digital archive and filestore, based on a
robotic tape system with 6 Terabytes of storage. Although the
data is stored on tape, you can access it very quickly, as if
it were on-line. It is made available to you via high-speed
links to the {JANET} and {SuperJANET} networks.
(http://ulcc.ac.uk/).
(1994-11-29)