# Computing Resources

**Source**: https://cds.iisc.ac.in/internal-resources/computing-resources/
**Parent**: http://cds.iisc.ac.in/admissions/course-degrees/

Below are some of the common computing resources available to the members of the department.

**Institute Resources**

The department has access to the Institute’s HPC systems housed in the same building at [SERC](http://www.serc.iisc.in/facilities/computing-systems/).

- **India’s fastest supercomputer**
  - [Cray XC40 called as SahasraT](http://www.serc.iisc.in/facilities/cray-xc40-named-as-sahasrat/ "Cray XC40 – named as “SahasraT”"), India’s fastest Supercomputer housed on Eight cabinets of 1506 nodes producing the peak performance of 1.45PFLOPS and Four cabinets of DDN storage with a 2PB usable space.
  - **Softwares**: All the faculty and students have access to the latest numerical and computational softwares. All the softwares are available through SERC. Kindly follow the instructions available at <http://www.serc.iisc.in/facilities/software/> to obtain these softwares.

**Teaching Resources**

The department is also equipped with computing resources meant exclusively for teaching purposes. The point of contact for the teaching resources are Prof. [Yogesh Simmhan](https://cds.iisc.ac.in/faculty/simmhan/) and Prof. [Sathish Vadhiyar](https://cds.iisc.ac.in/faculty/vss/).

- **turing cluster**
  - 24 Compute Nodes in two 12 node 3U blades. Each node has one 8-core AMD Opteron 3380 processor @ 2.6GHz, 32GB RAM, 2TB HDD, Gigabit Ethernet port
  - 1 Head Node with one 6-core Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 processor @ 2.40GHz, 48GB RAM, 1+4TB HDD, Gigabit Ethernet ports
  - One 24 port L2 Gigabit Ethernet switch
  - Running CentOS, MPI, PBS and Apache Hadoop/Yarn
  - Mounted on a 24U Rack
- **1 GPU node**
  - CPU: Xeon E5 2620 V2
  - Memory: 24GB (3 x 8GB DDR3-1600 ECC)
  - Hard Drive: 2 x 1TB SATA Seagate Enterprise HDD
  - NVIDIA Tesla K40M
  - Server Model: SYS-5017GR-TF
  - Chassis: CSE-818G-1K43B-Bdle
  - MBD: X9SRG-F

**Departmental Resources**

- **Servers**: The department has two servers for mail and website. Each of the server has a 6-core Intel Xeon E5-2420v2@2.2 GHz, 48GB RAM and a 2TB HDD. These running virtual machines for mail servers (2 VMs), department web site (1 VM), faculty websites (1 VM), and student websites *(TBD, 1 VM)*. The point of contact for the servers is Prof. Yogesh Simmhan.
- **Storage**: NetGear RN314 4-bay NAS box, with 4 Toshiba 2TB compatible HDD. The point of contact for the storage is Prof. Yogesh Simmhan.
- **Projector**: The department currently has a portable LG BG630 projector, XGA (1024 x 768), WiDi/Miracast wireless projection.
- **Printers/Scanners/Copiers**: Two Canon color network printers iR-ADV C3320 at Room # 219 and Room No # 314a. Some of the features of this printer include scan and send through email, secure printing etc.