Computer Support Group
The sterling hallmark of this campus is the OCTAGON - Computer Center. This center serves the campus-wide LAN in close association with the user departments. This LAN caters to 1500 users across the campus at the same time and has a 10 Gbps fiber optic backbone. It also acts as a resource centre to supplement classroom instructions with laboratory sessions.
The OCTAGON accommodates the central computing facilities, it has a server room with 25 high-end servers and 200 high-end computers. Its laboratories includes four labs -Lab 1 with 39 Pentium based PCs, Lab 2 with 52 Pentium 4 based PCs, Lab 3 also known as RECAL-Sun Lab with 33 Sun Computers, Graphics Lab with 30 Pentium 4 based PCs, R & D Lab with 10 Pentium 4 based PCs.
A Printer room equipped with two high-speed Hewlett Packard 9000DN - A3 Network Mono Laser Printers which can print 50 pages per minute (PPM), a high-speed Hewlett Packard 9500N - A3 Network Color Laser Printer which can print 24 pages per minute (PPM), a high-speed Hewlett Packard 4350DTN - A4 Network Mono Laser Printer which can print 55 pages per minute (PPM) and high-speed Line Matrix Printers which can print 1500 lines per minute (LPM), a Library for software, CBTs and manuals, Conference and Seminar facilities, a CAD/CAM Centre with 20 high-end workstations and an in-house maintenance facilities.
The centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). The CSG also offers courses under its Continuing Education Programme for the students as well as the local community. It also provides consultancy services to a range of organizations.
Octagon is kept open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout the year, also has centralized 2 x 60 kVA redundant Uninterrupted Power Supply with 200 kVA standby Power Generators and Central Air Conditioning.
A new Annex building with an additional capacity of 198 computers has come up next to Octagon to meet out the additional requirements.
Annex building has two labs, each with 99 computers, one lab is connected to the Internet via 12 Mbps (1:1) leased line from Software Technology Park of India (STPi) and the other lab is a general lab used for programming and CAD.