CENTRAL COMPUTING FACILITY

Mission: To bring BIT on the Information Super Highway

 In the present world, which is dynamic and knowledge based, professional institutions have a much wider role to play in creating, preserving, organizing, transmitting and applying knowledge. Modern educational technologies developed from information technology will certainly change in terms of access, interaction, curriculum and instruction etc. The physical locations and facilities have become be less important in defining an organization due to the easy on-line access of the educational resources and hands-on practices.

The Central Computer Facility (CCF), inaugurated by the Honb’le Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, is a well-equipped Computer Laboratory for the staff and students of the Institute, open on all weekdays during regular office hours.

A Computer Committee headed by the Principal of the Institute governs it.The CCF looks after the hardware and software maintenance of around 1000 systems and 200 peripherals in the Institute located at different academic and administrative departments of the Institute. The independent computer centers of various academic departments are connected to the Severs of CCF through Wireless LAN. CCF itself contains 250 computers that are connected through wired LAN and fulfils the need of computers for Electronics, IT, Computer science & Engg. and MCA courses. All systems inside the campus are linked by a Local Area Network. There are four servers that function 24 hours of the day in the Centre, providing various services to the Institute. 

Responsibilities of the CCF:

• Providing computing & networking facilities to users and groups of BIT
• To provide state of art facilities to the students of BIT
• To equip the computers of BIT for scientific computation, academic activities, administrative and accounting data maintenance
• To provide Internet connectivity to all users of BIT inside the campus
• To look after the maintenance of all the computers and peripherals of BIT
• To provide training to the faculty and staff of BIT for better utilization of computational resources
• To organize Continuing Education Program
• To provide consultancy to other organizations
• To maintain BIT’s website
• To conduct online test as a regular practice

Features of the CCF:

• Air-conditioned labs to house servers and desktops
• Four COMPAQ PROLAINT 370G Servers and one IBM Netfinity Server
• 250 latest PIV HP-Compaq/IBM nodes
• Internet connectivity of 2Mbps bandwidth through leased port
• 18 printers including laser and color laser
• 10 Laptops including a tablet PC
• Handheld PC
• Video conferencing kits with webcam
• Four scanners
• Licensed software