A computer center ( abbr. VC ) is an organization, unit, or, in a narrower sense, a complex of premises designed to accommodate computer systems and auxiliary equipment.
In a broader sense, the concept of "computer center" also includes technicians, engineers, programmers and other maintenance personnel, ensuring the functioning of the hosted equipment and interaction with users.
Previously, the premises of the computer center, where computers were located, were often called the machine room (or, briefly, the machine room ). The forerunners of computer centers were machine-counting stations .
A similar name is the Information and Computing Center ( ITC )
In the 1960s and 1980s, when the demand for computer technology exceeded available resources, in the USSR there was such a form of organization as a computer center for collective use (VTSKP) - a computer center that provided access to computer resources (computer time) to third-party organizations.
See also
- Data center
Soviet Computing Center
- Computing Center them. A. A. Dorodnitsyna RAS
- Research Computer Center of Moscow State University
- VTs-1 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR
- VTs-3 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR
- Computing Center SB RAS
- Computing Center FEB RAS
Links
- Scientific Research Computing Center of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University (NIVC)
- Main Information and Computing Center of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
- Internet-site of the All-Russian Automated System of Registration and Control of Registered Mail, Russian Post.
- Definition of the term: computer center
- Chelyabinsk ITC, structural unit of the Main Computing Center - a branch of Russian Railways