Post-war computing service centres
Mary Croarken · 1990
Abstract The NPL Mathematics Division was set up to act as a national computing centre to serve most of Britain’s computing needs. It epitomized the centralization concept both by providing computing services of all kinds and by carrying out research into new computing machinery and numerical techniques. The existence of the NPL Mathematics Division did not prevent several other institutions from developing computing centres of their own. Perhaps the most well-known British scientific computing service centre, other than the NPL Mathematics Division, was the Scientific Computing Service run by L. J. Comrie.