A full-fledged and well-equipped Computer Centre is available for the use of students, research scholars, faculty and non-teaching staff of the University. The Centre functions between 9.30 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. on all working days and 9.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on holidays.

Academic

The staff of the Computer Centre offer regular theory, laboratory and project courses to students of the University, in particular, M.Tech.(Computer Science & Engg.) / M.C.A./ M.Sc. (Computer Science) students of Computer Science Department. In addition computer laboratory courses are offered to the PG students of Economics, Statistics, Tourism Studies,etc.

Intranet

The campus-wide computer network - Intranet links all buildings and therein the Schools/ Departments/ Centres/ Sections on the main campus of the university through Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) backbone, high-speed CISCO switches and router. The Cultural-cum-Convention Centre, Guest House, School of Performing Arts, Department of Physical Education and Academic Staff College are connected to the intranet by wireless mode. About 1000 workstations across the University are connected to this network.

Every faculty member, offices of the Deans, Department Heads, Administrative Officers, Library, Seminar Halls and at least one class room in each department are connected to the intranet.

This intranet serves as the Information Highway of the University offering a variety of services to the campus community. It is also proposed to connect, in near future, the off-campus centres/ units of the University to the intranet. Currently, the services, offered over this platform, are: internet, general computing , access to online data bases like CMIE ‘s Prowess , automation services and through Library - online journals both from University resources and UGC-Infonet Consortia, CD database subscription, cataloguing, etc.

Internet

8 Mbps internet access is being provided through radio link by M/s. Software Technology Park of India, Puducherry to all users on the campus through the intranet on 24 x 7 basis. The internet access is well utilized by both the teaching/learning, research and administrative community of the University.

Web Services

The web server and e-mail server of the University are maintained on the campus by the Centre.

EDUSAT

Academic Staff College has EDUSAT facility which is maintained by the Computer Centre. Participants of refresher/orientation courses conducted by Academic Staff College and the University academic community avail this facility.

UGC- Infonet

2 Mbps UGC-Infonet link makes available to the campus users, through intranet, access to about 5000 e-journals and internet services. This has given a boost to research activities on the campus.

E-Governance

An e-Governance system is being ushered into the University for management of its functions. Various functions of falling under the categories of Administration, Academic, Finance and Examinations. With the grant from UGC, the following system consists of SUN Solaris Database Server Cluster, Oracle 10g Database Server Suite, SUN Upteron Application server, External Storage and Autoloader.

A 3-tier, web-based, secure and integrated automation software system was developed and installed. The implementation is under different stages of completion.

Apprenticeship Training

The Computer Centre conducts one year long Apprenticeship Training to candidates who passed the ITI PASSA Trade. (More Details..)

In-house Training

In house training to Faculty/ Administrative staff of the university is regularly provided to update them on essential ICT skills.

Computer Systems

Sun Solaris Server, Intel Xeon servers, Intel Pentium Servers and Intel Pentium Multimedia PCs running MS Windows/ Red Hat LINUX operating environments.

Other Services

The Centre also extends consultancy for identifying proper configuration of computer systems, network systems, web and email services to the University community as well to other government and non-government organizations.

It also assists in and renders service co-ordination for the proper maintenance of Computer systems on the campus.

Peripherals

A variety of peripherals like Color Laser Printer/ Network Laser Printer/ Dot Matrix Printers/ Inkjet Printers/ Scanner/ DVD Writers/Web camera are available.

Software- MS Windows Platform

Windows 2003 Advanced Server, Windows XP Professional Client, Visual Basic, Access and SQL Server, SPSS 12.0 Networked, Macromedia Suite (Director/Flash/ Fireworks/Dream weaver), MS Project, Adobe Acrobat Editor, Norton Antivirus, CMIE database.

Linux Platform

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Postgress SQL, C++, JAVA 1.1, Squid Proxy Server, Apache Web Server, Lynx, Star office Suite.

Network Management

Cisco Workgroup for Windows, SNMPc., Cisco Network Assistant.

 

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