Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

University of London Computing Centre
     
         (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} {NOC}s 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.
     
        {Home (http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/)}.
     
        (1994-11-29)