Computer Support Group

The Octagon
The Octagon - Main CC building 

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 totally 4000 users across the campus (1600 users 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 & Annex building accommodates the central computing facilities, it has a server room with 25 high-end servers and there are 7 laboratories, 5 labs in Octagon building and 2 labs in the Annex building with totally 400 high-end computers.                                                        

Lab Name Lab Space / Lab Area Number of Computers Specification of the Computers
LAB-I 11.6 m x 5.1 m 59.16 m2 39 HP Compaq DC7900, Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 @ 3.0GHz processor, 2GB DDR2- 800MHz RAM, 250GB SATA 2 Hard Disk, ATI Radeon HD2400XT PCI EX16 (256MB) Graphics Card, 17” Flat Panel LCD Monitor
LAB-II 11.6 m x 5.9 m 68.44 m2 55 Dell Optiplex 980, Intel Core i5 Processor 670, 3.46GHz, Intel Q 57 Mother Board, 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM (1333 MHz), 500GB 7200 rpm SATA2, USB Key board, USB Mouse, Gigabit Ethernet, 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card, 17” LCD Monitor
LAB-III (Linux LAB under installation) 11.6 m x 5.9 m 68.44 m2 20 Dell Optiplex 980, Intel Core i5 Processor 670, 3.46GHz, Intel Q 57 Mother Board, 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM (1333 MHz), 500GB 7200 rpm SATA2, USB Key board, USB Mouse, Gigabit Ethernet, 512MB ATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card, 17” LCD Monitor
LAB-IV (Graphics Lab) 8.2 m x 5.1 m 41.82 m2 30 Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz, 4MB L2, 1333MHz FSB, EM64T, Intel Q35 Express Chipset, 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz, 160GB SATA-II 7200rpm, 256 MB ATI Radeon HD2400-XT DVI, 19-in-1 Card Reader, USB Keyboard & Optical Mouse, 10/100/1000 NIC, 19” LCD Monitor
LAB-V (CAD/CAM Laboratory) 9.1 m x 5.9 m 53.69 m2 22 HP xw4200 Workstation Intel Pentium 4 processor @ 3.20 GHz, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM ECC, 80GB HDD, Nvidia Quadro FX 256MB PCI-Express Graphics Card, 17" UltraSharp LCD Flat Panel Monitor Dell 350n Pentium 4 Workstations with High End Graphics Card with 19” LCD Monitors
Annex Building (Internet Lab, Ground Floor), Open from 6:00am to 1:00am midnight 15.8 m x 10.9 m 172.22 m2 99 Dell Optiplex 990F, Intel Core i7 Processor 2600, 3.40GHz, Intel Q 67 Express Chipset, 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1TB 7200 rpm (SATA II) 3.0 Gbps, USB Key board, USB Mouse, 512MB AMD Radeon HD 6350 Graphics Card, Dell P190S 19” LCD Monitor
Annex Building (1st Floor Lab) 15.8 m x 10.9 m 172.22 m2 99 Dell Optiplex 990F, Intel Core i7 Processor 2600, 3.40GHz, Intel Q 67 Express Chipset, 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1TB 7200 rpm (SATA II) 3.0 Gbps, USB Key board, USB Mouse, 512MB AMD Radeon HD 6350 Graphics Card, Dell P190S 19” LCD Monitor

The Octagon
Lab1


It has a Printer room equipped with four high-speed A4 and A3 Network Laser Printers (Mono and Color) which can print up to 60 pages per minute (PPM); a Library for software and manuals; Conference and Seminar facilities; a CAD/CAM Centre with 22 high-end workstations and an in-house maintenance facilities.

The centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG).

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.

NITT is connected to the Internet via 58 Mbps (1:1) leased line from Software Technology Park of India (STPi) and via 100 Mbps leased line from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) under National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology (NME-ICT). Currently work is in progress for providing 1Gbps connectivity by National Informatics Centre (NIC) using Railnet as a part of National Knowledge Network (NKN)
Network security is provided through two UTM appliances with failover option (Sonic Wall NSA 8500) and two Email Security appliances (Sonic Wall ES8300). User authentication for browsing the Internet is linked with ADS

 

The Octagon
Annex Building CC 

 

The Octagon
CSG Library