Dear All,
Computer Centre: The Computer Centre provides IT facilities and related services to support students, faculty and staff for teaching, research, learning and administration. It facilitates and maintains the state-of-art networking and computational environment for the Institute. The Computer Centre has two operational wings- CCIT and CC Labs.
The CCIT (Computer Centre’s IT wing) maintains the server room, which houses five PowerEdge R540, one R440, and one R240 servers available on the network, supporting Intel i5 PCs and Workstations of Lenovo/HP/Dell make equipped with Windows and/or Linux environments supporting a variety of software tools.
The CCIT manages and maintains the campus-wide network which is built using Cisco three-tier architecture with wired and WiFi access to users. At present, the campus LAN is connected to 3.00 Gbps dedicated fiber leased line (taken from 4 different ISPs) for the Internet connectivity to the entire campus community, and one 2 Mbps PRI line for ~450 IP Phones installed at various offices within the campus.
The SSL-VPN has been configured for accessing our network resources remotely and securely. The ISP WAN (from different vendors) links are load balanced through a Radware load-balancer for better monitoring of WAN links, bandwidth allocation to different VLANs, and to provide application level QoS to users. We have Sophos XGS7500 UTM device deployed on the periphery of the network for authenticating users, performing web and spam filtering etc. The eScan antivirus SW is installed on all computers for protection from virus threats.
The CCIT is also responsible for creating and managing official e-mail IDs for all students, staff, departments and divisions, using Google’s centralized e-mail solutions The CCIT also maintains the Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure and the Telepresence (TP) infrastructure in the campus. Using the TP facility, BITS Hyderabad campus establishes connectivity with three other BITS campuses to conduct conferences, meetings and online live lecture sessions.
To improve the resource utilization of CC with maximum fairness, every year our CCIT circulates a document containing policies to be followed for using BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus computing systems and IT resources. The purpose of the policy is to ensure that all users (faculties, staffs, students and third party) use Campus computing facilities in an effective, efficient, ethical and lawful manner.
The CC Labs (Computer Centre Labs) facilitates the computational requirements for teaching and research in BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus. It manages nine Computational laboratories for teaching and research. The CC Labs facility with approximately 500 PCs is accommodating integrated teaching with computational/numerical tools. Every year, CC Labs facilitated 50 courses (approx.) from engineering and science departments. A dedicated research lab equipped with 50 desktops is serving the research needs of the faculty and students working on funded projects, dissertations as well as on design-oriented-projects.
The CC Labs maintains around 35-40 network-based software/numerical tools, including the course-specific software and the general application software. The course-specific licenses include Design Tools- Auto CAD, FLEXSIM and PTC Creo, Numerical Computing Tools- MATLAB, MATHEMATICA and MATHCAD, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Tools- ANSYS CFD, Open Foam and COMSOL, Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis Tools- ABAQUS and ANSYS Mechanical, Civil Engineering Design Software- Bentley, and several other Statistical and Geographical Information System (GIS) tools.
The CC Labs is also involved in the procurement and maintenance of computer-aided tools or software and the supporting hardware infrastructure for educational use. The vision of the CC Labs is to facilitate advanced computing facilities for faculty and students to enhance the teaching and research endeavors of the institute. To achieve its aim, the CC labs is constantly conducting training to staff/students that impart knowledge on basics and advancements in software/numerical tools.
The CC Labs also helps AUGSD and AGSRD divisions in online instruction and Admissions Division in conducting the BITSAT online entrance examination. The CC Labs also supports various departments and student associations in conducting workshops, conferences, and seminars.
Prof. R Gururaj
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
ccit@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
