(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 Crayvector supercomputing service. ITs high performance computing facilITies are now centred on a 6 processor, 4 Gbyte Convex C3860supercomputer (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 JANETNOCs 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. Start . (1994-11-29)