| Towards an endeavour for improving the
environment for scientific computing in the country TIFAC, is establishing interconnected
and integrated compute resources under the ICOSER programme. The scope of this programme
is to provide an integrated computing environment by setting up level-II and level-III
computer centres with graded computing capabilities in various parts of the country. All
computers within centres are being be networked, to provide accessibility through a
high-performance network to resources from one level of centre to the next higher level
centres. Also, high performance computing manpower training programme is being conducted
under this project. The seven established Level III centres are:
- Panjab University, Chandigarh
- Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin
- Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai
- Indian Institute Technology-Bombay, Mumbai
- Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahat, Guwahati
- Indian Institute of Physics, Bhubhneshwar
Level II centres are proposed to be established at:
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- PRL-Ahemdabad
- University of Hyderabad
- Pune University
Computing facilities at Level-III centres
Seven Level III centres are ready. These centres have been set-up with the assistance
of Supercomputers Engineering Research Centre at Indian Institute Science (SERC),
Bangalore. Level-III systems provide entry level computing facilities for scientific and
engineering problem analysis and solutions. Level lII systems comprises a collection of
workstations over a high performance network with a network of low end workstations and
Graphic workstations. Users can access all computing resources from low-end workstations.
While a high performance cluster of workstations is envisaged as the main computing
facility, the software environment allow all workstations to participate in cluster
computing.
The major components are:
- High Performance Batch/Interactive Servers
- File Servers
- High Performance Graphic Stations
- Interactive Access Stations
- Network Interconnects
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High Performance Computing Manpower Training Programme
High Performance Computing Training Programme is being imparted in batches to the
scientists and system administrators from these centres and other institute. Total eight
training programmes will be imparted of which two have been conducted. The training
programme is conducted by SERC, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, at its centre. |
