The Computer Centre, established
in 1970 as a central computing facility, became Supercomputer
Education and Research Centre (SERC) in 1990 to provide
state-of-the-art computing
facility to the faculty and students of the Institute.
The Centre is created and fully funded by the Ministry
of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to commemorate
the Platinum Jubilee of the Institute, in the year 1984. The Centre
is conceived of as a functionally distributed supercomputing
environment, housing leading-edge computing systems,
with sophisticated software packages, and connected
by a powerful high-speed fibre-optic network.
SERC is engaged in research
programs (Ph.D. and M.Sc) and course
program (M.Tech in Computational Science) in areas
relating to supercomputer development and its application to critical areas of science and engineering.
The active research
areas are broadly classified into three major
research streams: Computer Systems, Computational
Science, and Bioinformatics. The Centre is also involved
in several sponsored
research projects in collaboration with many government
agencies, public and private sector undertakings,
and multinationals, training programme under Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), and research projects under Society for Innovation and Development (SID) . Many of these exercises have fed
critical inputs to various national initiatives in
High Performance Computing and Communication Technology.
The Centre is also involved in Industrial
Consultancies on software solution, IT planning
for banking sectors, and manpower training