School of Computing

Infrastructure & Networking Facility

Centre for Information Super Highway (CISH) – The Central Computing Facility

Centre for Information Super Highway (CISH)- The Central Computing Facility

The Centre for Information Superhighway is a part of the Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Advanced Computing & Information Processing established by the Technology, Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. This facility at the School of Computing has been constantly upgraded to meet the academic and research needs of the entire campus. M/s Tata communications Lab for Cyber Security, Microsoft Technical Services Lab for Cloud, Tata Realty-Data Science Lab, VLSI Lab, Embedded systems Lab, Microprocessor Lab, NAMASTE Lab and recognitions like Nvidia – CUDA Centre of Excellence makes the facility a world class infrastructure paving way for students and faculty members of SASTRA Deemed University to excel in their respective domains.

To ensure that all students have access to computers and up to date software packages the University has implemented the following:

10G LAN and a fully Wi-Fi enabled campus (Hostels and classrooms) gives 24 X 7 access to all the IT resources of the University
The Central computing facility hosts the HPC Linux Cluster (34 petaFLOPS) and is accessible from the User devices for deploying their compute/ memory intensive tasks. The HPC is powered by GPFS (General Parallel File System) which delivers a high performance parallel computing environment. The Platform Application Centre(PAC) is used for monitoring and the admin can control the amount of resource utilised by the users. The Load Sharing Facility (LSF) acts as a job scheduler. The queuing system allocates fixed ceiling resources, department-wise so that resources are distributed as per the queuing policy. The HPC hosts environments & applications like X-Scale AI, X-Scale HPC, Ganglia, SciPy, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA, MPI/Open MP, Schrodinger, Gaussian, TCAD, Gromacs, NAMD, SciLab and R.
Microsoft campus agreement gives unlimited access to the Microsoft products for enhancing the teaching/ learning experience. Students, faculty & Lab machines get genuine Microsoft software and OS updates through these subscriptions
Turnitin access is given to students and faculty members to do the best original work
The Lab machines, faculty & student Laptops across the campus can be Installed with Matlab (latest edition with updates) which comes through the Campus agreement with Matlab
Access to Google Classroom (as a part of Google Suite Subscription), helps the students get engaged with their Professors after the class hours, making learning a fun. Every student is given a mail id with - regno(@)sastra.ac.in
Faculty members can access the campus digital library subscriptions from outside the campus using the KNIMBUS.

The University campus has the following Infrastructure & network facilities:

34PETA FLOPS HPC

2 GbpsInternet Connectivity

1100Wi-Fi Access Points

436CCTV Cameras

Servers

IBM X3650 Intel Xeon processor with 128 GB RAM & 2 TB local storage act as SASTRA.EDU web server to support all our university web-based activities like parents corner, student corner, Online payment, registration etc.

Security

UTM (FortiGate 3000F), K7 Enterprise security Antivirus Server, Antispam Engine, IPS, vulnerability scan, web filtering and email filtering.

High-performance computing cluster

High-performance computing cluster augmented with NVIDIA DGX-H200 server housing 8 numbers of H200 GPU cards with 141 GB RAM each makes the computing power to 34 PETA FLOPS. The HPC houses 24 numbers X86 Compute nodes, AC922 server with A100 GPU & Tesla K80 nodes, IBM IC922 Power server with V100 GPU & Power9 Raptor computing nodes. Dell Unity storage server & IBM storage to store student and Faculty projects and datasets in the area of Data science, Machine learning etc.

NVIDIA DGX-H200 server is used to run AI applications, Machine Learning and Deep learning Projects efficiently.

Networking Facility

Campus wide networking facility equipped with Juniper MX80 router, Fortigate Firewall 3000F, HPE Flex Fabric core switch-5710, Aruba-9240 & Fortinet-3301E Controllers for Wi-Fi (1100 Access points), 200 access level switches (Aruba, HP, Cisco & Fortinet), FortiNAC for Network access control Application. JAZE Access Manager to simplify network policy enforcement and provides a centralized platform to manage and monitor users and devices. Fortinet 800D Forti analyzer for Monitoring Internet activities.

Internet Facility

The entire University campus, Library and Hostels are facilitated with 2Gbps Fibre optic connectivity (NKN 1 Gbps (BSNL), JIO 1 Gbps (Backup)) to provide WiFi to all Faculty, Research scholars and students.

Cyber Security Lab

Has been equipped with High end servers and nodes having ethical hacking tools to acquire skills about domain centric security and ethical hacking.

Cloud Facility

A VMware, Citrix XenCenter & Proxmox VE Private cloud is set up with 15 servers for managing virtual machines & Dell power edge storage devices of 150 TB storage for the staff and students to keep their valuable data. Also, a private cloud is being used to acquire technical skills on various Microsoft Products with 15 servers.

Surveillance camera

Entire campus is equipped with 436 CCTV cameras, storage devices (240TB) and Seven 64-Channel NVR for Observing different areas in the university and store footage regularly.

Biometric

Biometrics devices installed in all Schools and hostels for attendance database maintenance.

World Class Industry sponsored Labs

World Class Industry sponsored Labs like Technology Development Centre, Bajaj Engineering Skill Training (BEST) Centre has been setup in our University campus.

Research at CISH

In addition CISH as a research lab focuses on research relating to Network Security, Cloud Computing, Machine & Deep Learning and Brain-Computing Interface and has attracted funds from various National and International funding agencies like ICPS-DST, MHRD, MeitY, TatatPower, TCS, IBMSUR, etc. to a tune of Rs 6.5 crores.

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