Atlas Computer Laboratory

Quantum Chemistry - the State of the Art , Volume 3, Hartree-Fock Theory , Proceedings of S.R.C. Atlas Symposium No. 4, ed. V. R. Saunders and J. Brown, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Chilton, near Didcot, Oxford, 1974. 

S. WUson, J. Gerratt, In Proceedings of the SRC Atlas Symposium Quantum Chemistry — The State of the Art, V. R. Saunders, J. Brown, eds., St. Catherine s College, Oxford, p. 109, Atlas Computer Laboratory, Science Research CouncU, Chilton, Oxfordshire (1974)... 

The first was that of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, which opened in summer 1964. The second was the publication of A Report of a Joint Working Group on Computers for Research in January 1966. This last is always called the Flowers Report, after its chairman B. H. (Brian) Flowers, who was then Langworthy Professor of Physics (in succession to Blackett) at Manchester. He was later to become a government science adviser, chairman of both the Science... 

V. R. Saunders and M. F. Guest, ATMOL 3 User Note No. 9, Atlas Computing Division, Rutherford Laboratory. 

Saunders, V.R., and Guest, M.F., (1976), ATMOL3 Reference Manual, Atlas Computing Divison, Rutherford Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon 0X11 OQY. 

We thank the staff of the Atlas Computing Centre at SERC s Rutherford Appleton Laboratories on whose Cray-XMP48 this work was carried out and Miss M.Morris for her careful typing of this article. 

But large changes were in the offing. Proposals had been made to reorganise the SRC permanent laboratories, and these were about to be acted on. Their consequence for this story is the shifting of the computational chemistry focus from Atlas to Daresbury Laboratory, as mentioned above. But before going on to consider the developments after the change of location, it is useful to back-track a little and consider the chemical database work done at Atlas lab. 

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