Computer Facilities at IMSc


Acceptable Usage Policy of IMSc Computer Centre

Acceptable Administration Policy of IMSc Computer Centre

IMSc Network usage Guidelines for users having their own laptops

IMSc has a highly sophisticated user community working in such computationally challenging research areas as lattice gauge theories, Monte-Carlo simulations and large scale symbolic manipulations in physics and mathematics.

A network of workstations and PC's provide facilities for numerical and symbolic manipulations, electronic mail and Internet access and other usage such as document-processing. At the heart of the network are Sun Sparc workstations SGI machines and pentiums. A Sun Enterprise 250 MHz dual CPU model (512) Operating on Solaris 2.7 (RAID 5) is configured as the Network File Server. The network includes Ultra Sparc machines as general purpose workstations. Heavy number-crunching applications and advanced graphics capabilities are provided by a twin-tower 2+2 cpu SGI Origin 200 (connected by a Cray Switch) based on the R 10000 chip and a couple of Sun Balde 1000 two cpu Ultra Sparc machines. In addition we now have a

144 Node Dual Xeon Linux Cluster (ILGTI project) .

Apart from Fortran and C libraries, symbolic manipulation packages like MACSYMA, MATHEMATICA and FORM are available in addition to graphics packages like SuperMongo (on Sun). IMSL, Numerical Recipes and MATLAB libraries are also available.

Printing services are handled by duplex laser printers on each floor, and a color laser printer. We have a colour scanner for easy conversion of hard-copy text and graphics into electronic copies.

A more detailed Network Profile.

Internet access is provided by a 8Mbps fibre link to Airtel

Connection

The computational facilities are under the supervision of our systems managers, G.Subramoniam. and Raveendra Reddy
To register as a user on the system, please fill in the form here.

Logging in from outside the IMSc network

The IMSc LAN is behind a firewall and therefore logging in from outside the network is non-trivial.

For instructions to get shell acess click here .

For instructions to get VPN acess click here .

Compute Servers

List of Compute Servers.

Local Resources : Access for local users only.

Linux Distributions : Linux CD/Dvd Images.

Local Resources : General Access.

Resources

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