Computer Centre
About Computer Centre
The Computer Centre caters to the computational and IT related needs of the academic as well as residential community at IIT(ISM), Dhanbad since its inception in 1987. The Centre is presently operating from its own building situated near New Academic Complex of IIT(ISM) Campus. The Computer Centre has a state-of-the-art Campus Network providing fast and seamless net connectivity to campus users. The Computer Centre is having a dedicated Automation Centre in a separate building for the development and maintenance of academic and non-academic modules as per the requirement of the institute. The Computer Centre is also running a Data Centre with servers, storage, and virtualization software to host eoffice, in-house developed MIS modules, scientific software etc. The HPC is also part of the Computer Centre having 48 nodes apart from the master node and a GPU. Three Computer Labs equipped with 160 computers each for holding lab classes of different departments, online placement and recruitment tests are also managed by the Computer Centre. The Computer Centre maintains two studios, eleven smart classrooms, Telephone Exchange, Biometric attendance system and IP surveillance system. The Computer Centre is dedicated towards strengthening the Institute’s IT infrastructure to meet the expectations of its stakeholders.
Network Services
IIT(ISM), Dhanbad has a large campus network consisting of both wired and wireless network which includes academic, hostel and residential areas. There are approximately 10,000 users in the campus LAN. All the hostels and department buildings are connected to the Computer Centre through FOC. The Computer Centre is the heart of Campus Network; housed with core switches, wireless LAN controllers, firewalls, load balancers etc. Adequate redundancies have been made in the critical resources located at the core and distribution layer of the network for service continuation in case of faults. Links from multiple ISP’s are used for redundancy and availability. IIT(ISM) is running a Network Complaint Module as part of its MIS where users log their complaints.
Data Centre Services
The Data Centre comprises state of the art servers and storage. In-house developed MIS modules, e-office, biometric attendance, software like Ansys, Comsol, Abacus, Matlab, etc. are hosted in the Data Centre. Large number of VMs are created for hosting several services. Tilde account is provided to all faculty members to host their webpage.
Software Available:
IIT(ISM) offers its users to access Campus e-resources while out of campus through VPN. The Computer Centre has installed a Secure Socket Layer VPN (SSL-VPN) server to allow access to IIT(ISM) Campus LAN resources remotely through the Internet. SSL-VPN employs encryption and other strong security protocols and allows two devices to create a private, secure communications tunnel through the Internet. This ensures that only authorized users can access the IIT(ISM) network remotely through VPN.
- At present, we have 30 DID (Inward Dialling Direct) incoming and outgoing and one PRI- 30 (Primary Rate Interface) channel for internal distribution of 1000 lines.
- Institute is using Siemens Hipath 4000 device for catering EPBAX solution to the stakeholders.
- The system is also equipped with call budgeting software with 24 port analog extension card (42 nos.) and 1 IP extension card with Consendo software License.
IIT(ISM) had deployed an IP surveillance system to cater the security requirements. IP cameras are installed at entry and exit points of main campus as well as at many other strategic locations backed by storage to hold recording.
Computer Labs
Biometric Attendance
Studio & Smart Classrooms
Videoconference
HPC
Contact Us
Office of Computer Centre
email id : office[dot]cc[at the rate of]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in
Phone No: 0326-223-5286
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines)
Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand, India