Contents

• Background to the Science
• 50 Years of Research Computing Facilities
  • Significant Events in STFC Computing History
  
  
• Computer Hardware available to DL Collaborators
  • The 1960s
  • The 1970s
  • The Cray-1
  • The 1980s
  • The 1990s
  • More recently
  • Year 2000 onwards
  • 2005-2012: NW-GRID, the North West Grid
  
  
• Distributed Computing
  • The Importance of Networking
  • The UNIX revolution, 1988-1994
  • The Future?
  
  
• 2012 onwards. The Hartree Centre and Big Data.
  • The UK's e-Infrastructure
  • The Hartree Centre
  • 50 Years of Big Data Impact
  
  
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Notes on Visit made to Daresbury, 12 February 1974
• The Early Days of CCP4, c.1977
• Archive Images
• Computer systems at Daresbury over the Years
• Exhibitions and Artefacts
  • Collection Catalogue
  • Exhibitions
  
  
• Interesting Facts
  • Why does a Computer need to be so big?
  • Need to move data around
  • Amdahl's Law
  • Moore's Law
  • Interesting Facts and Figures.