Laboratory

• CSE Lab is equipped with 100 mbps switched network. All systems (servers & clients) are equipped with 10/100 mbps Ethernet cards. CISCO Catalyst 2900 switch is acting as back bone switch. It is a tree topology network. Through one Linux router this lab is connected to rest of IITK fiber backbone and Internet. 24 more 24 ports 100 Mbps switches are there to cater whole CSE building
• Eight wireless access points (54 Mbps) are placed in the building to serve wireless needs.
• The CSE Lab provides NFS, SMTP mail, DNS, DHCP, NIS(YP), Mysql database server, Tomcat servlet runner, FTP server, Intranet website, Internet website, NTP services. One Linux Based Pentium III system provides DNS, NIS, DHCP & NTP services. Another server having similar hardware & O.S. is a backup server for this system.
• One dual Xeon Linux server provides SMTP mail service. This server also provides IMAP/s & POP2/3/s services. Another system having similar hardware & software configuration is acting as backup server for this mail server.
• Mail box backup is also available for last 12 hours.
• Two Xeon linux servers provide NFS service for all CSE Lab users.
• 2 Linux and two SUN servers are for general purpose use.
• Home directories for all users is available to any machine through NFS and samba. Every B.Tech has 300 MB disk quota and M.Tech has 500 MB disk quota.
• Intranet website, anonymous FTP server, MySQL server services are running on a Linux Pentium-IV system.
• Internet website & personal home pages are hosted on Linux (Fedora) based xeon server.
• Scanning & CD Writing facility is also available in the CSE-Lab.
• Most of the CSE-Lab clients are dual boot systems. These systems are using DHCP for fixed IP allocation. Currently, clients are running Fedora core 2/Mandrake 10 & Windows 2000 with SP4. Sixteen SUN, workstations having Solaris 8 are also being used in the Lab. 12 sunray clients are alos available in the lab loaded with Solaris 9.
• Most of the PCs in rooms are equipped with laser printer and DVD ROM cum CD-Writer unit.
• Three Laser printers, out of which one HP 4550 N is a color laser printer are used for printing. All printers are networked. One dot matrix printer is also available for printing.
• We are using ppr for printing quota system
• CSE-Lab is fully air conditioned & UPS protected. 60 minute backup is for lab client systems and 2 hour backup is for all server systems and room PCs.
• Daily automatic backup is for users home directory. It is available for last 30 days.
• Monthly backup available for last three months

The department also draws upon the computing resources available at the Institute's Computer Centre.

Library

The department has a small library, which has all the important text books, conference proceedings, and journals. This is besides the Central Library which is very well equipped.