Computer Laboratory
Computer Laboratory (CompLab) is responsible for establishment and maintenance of computer and network facilities at JNCASR, and its connectivity with the rest of the world through internet. Its goal is to continuously evolve the information technology (IT) resources at the Centre that meet the IT requirements of the highly heterogeneous community ranging from Administration, Scientists and Engineers, facilitating cooperation and collaborative interactions amongst them. It interfaces with every Unit and section at JNCASR, seeks inputs from a broad set of users in planning the IT infrastructure. This includes various servers, softwares, local area network (LAN), internet links, multi-media communication over internet and high performance computing (HPC) housed in the Central Facility. In addition, CompLab provides support and services to maintain computing resources in different groups at JNCASR, efficiently through an online ticketing system.
CompLab hosts email, web, proxy and gateway servers of the Centre, Link-load-balancer, IronPortC150 (a spam-controller), a Firewall and maintains many other servers that cater to Purchase, Canteen and Labrary. An uninterrupted LAN connectivity within the Centre is achieved at 1 Gbps with Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) backbone, CAT-6 network cables and a manageable chasis switch. The centre is connected to internet via 10 Mbps + 25Mbps leased lines from BSNL & HCL Infotech, respectively. Complab maintains HPC resources at a moderate level, and has plans to expand them further. A centralized back-up facility via NAS/SAN helps store critical data from various servers as well as those from the Purchase and Accounts sections. Infrastructural support is given for Windows, Mac and Linux based machines across the Centre.
In addition to the Server and Cluster laboratories, CompLab maintains a 24-hour central computing facility of two terminal rooms with printers and several desktop Linux and Windows PCs running equipped with a wide range of the scientific softwares and databses. Each member of JNCASR has a quota and access to free print-outs from CompLab’s high-quality colour and monochrome printers.
In the near future, CompLab plans to further enhance the Email server, acquire Video (both Archival and Live) Streaming solutions.
HEAD
Professor Umesh V Waghmare
R&D ASSISTANTS
Vikas Mohan Bajpai, Vishnu Pradeep and Kiran Kumar S
Onsite Support ENGINEER (under the Facility Management Contract)
Ashish Purna B
Email: complab@jncasr.ac.in Web: www.jncasr.ac.in/complab
