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Information Processing and Business Intelligence

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Brief Intro

Information Processing and Business Intelligence (IPBI) Unit takes care of the IT related requirements of the entire campus. IPBI unit maintains 4 terminal rooms (Labs) to provide centralized computing facilities to the student and faculty community. The fifth terminal room will be ready by June, 2012. These terminal rooms have around 320 computers (Desktop plus Workstations). IPBI Unit also maintains the Campus-wide NW with 4000 nodes (approx.) capacity, and other IT infrastructure for the campus. . The entire campus has been connected through LAN. Internet facility has been provided to all hostel rooms, laboratories, classrooms, library, faculty offices & residences. One leased line of 45Mbps, from Tata Tele services, and the other one with same bandwidth from Reliance Communications Ltd., are operational. IPBI has following servers- IBM eServer BladeCentre with SAN running Windows 2003 Enterprise edition and Linux with servers like Microsoft exchange for email, Apache for Web, Redhat Enterprise Compute server, and FTP servers. PCs in IPC Terminal Rooms have additional graphics card on a few systems running Windows XP and Redhat Linux 5.0. All the PCs are on the network and can connect to any of the compute servers. The development tools available are: TC Plus, Jdk 1.3, Visual Studio 2008, Compilers (gcc/g++ & Sun’s JDK), Script Interpreters (Tcl/Tk, Perl 5.0, gawk). Other development tools include (GNU Assemblers, flex, flex++, X-Development tools), and graphical viewers (gsview, gimp, X-fig, xpdf, xdvi). AutoCAD 2010 Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Revit Structures, AutoCAD Revit Architecture, AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Electrical, Visual Studio 2008, Jdk 1.3, TC Plus, SQL Server 2008, and McAfee Antivirus are also available. The AT & T Interwise (Client software) is also available for iMeeting/ iClass in a satellite studio facility. All users can work on Unix/Linux or Windows XP environments, subject to the availability of workstations at any point of time. With these computing facilities, laboratory work for courses like Engineering Graphics, English Language Communication, and Computer Programming I, Computer Programming II, Electrical Science, and VLSI Design are being conducted. The centre is also being used by the students for their Internet usage across the disciplines. All these above computers are connected to uninterrupted power supply for safe operations. The Centre operates from 9.00am to 8.00pm on all days including Saturday and Sunday. The unit also manages the voice solution for the complete campus. Apart from this IPBI is also responsible for processing salaries to employees.

  • Services offered

    • Computing facilities with around 320 Computers in IPC terminals.
    • Computing Facilities for faculty members.
    • Telephone services.
    • E-mail server.
    • Web hosting.
    • Facilities for WILP online lectures.
    • Internet facility (45 + 45 Mbps) for the campus community.
    • Campus-wide LAN.
    • Payroll Processing.

  • Activities

    • Day-to-day maintenance of computer labs.
    • Providing technical services (related to computers) to other departments and individual staff.
    • Salaries processing.
    • Maintaining LAN, Servers, CISCO NW components and Internet connections.
    • Maintaining Satellite studio.
    • Facilitating WILP online lectures.
    • Maintaining the campus website.
    • Maintenance of Telephone services for the Institute.

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