University of London Computing Centre

University of London Computing Centre

(body, education)(ULCC) One of the UK's national highperformance computing centres. It provides networkingservices and large-scale computing facilities which are usedby researchers from all over the UK.

ULCC was founded in 1968 to provide a service for educationand research. It has been at the forefront of advancedresearch computing since its foundation, initially providinglarge-scale CDC-based facilities, then from 1982 to 1991 anational Cray vector supercomputing service. Its highperformance computing facilities are now centred on a 6processor, 4 Gbyte Convex C3860 supercomputer (Neptune)with a Convex C3200 front-end (Pluto).

ULCC is the main site for national and international networkconnections 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 variousinternational links and relays on behalf of UKERNA.

ULCC's pilot National Data Repository service provides anetwork-accessible digital archive and filestore, based on arobotic tape system with 6 Terabytes of storage. Although thedata is stored on tape, you can access it very quickly, as ifit were on-line. It is made available to you via high-speedlinks to the JANET and SuperJANET networks.

http://ulcc.ac.uk/.