Technical Services - Information technology
Information technology
The IT section provides support, design, technology selection, systems management, administration, review and development of IT policies and standards to help the scientific community on campus.
inStem runs its own mail server, web server, firewall, backup server etc., all of which are serviced by the IT team. Most of the servers being deployed use open source solutions to meet current requirements. The IT team also uses open source solutions to design with new applications such as schedulers for campus services, and bar code systems to monitor animals in the animal and fly facilities. Virtualization is also being carried out by the group for critical servers to avoid blackouts.
The campus backbone is connected in ring with 10G uplinks from the core to the edges with a capability to expand to 40G in the future. Wireless deployments are focused on providing as much coverage as possible. To facilitate intensive computations, the inStem IT Services has set up a high performance computing infrastructure hosted at the data centre. The high performance clusters are used for computation intensive simulations, model calculations, NGS Data Analysis. In an effort to meet the ever growing requirement for data storage for scientific and computational raw data, a centralized data storage system has been implemented. The system has a capacity of 1 PB with redundancy and high availability which can scale beyond a petabyte for future expansions.
The IT team also manages the surveillance CCTV infrastructure, and is also involved in the maintenance of the automated Fire extinguisher system installed all over campus.
