Computing facilities

The Institute has an extensive computing infrastructure in place to support its work. The primary computing requirements are served by a distributed system of desktop PCs and laptops, supported by extensive disc storage.

IFIC is a Tier-2 Grid cluster, the computing centre houses several clusters with more than 3000 cores and 1.9 PB of disk storage, some of them using GRID technologies. More than 30 servers are constantly operating to provide email and web services, storage, resource management, user access, monitoring services, printing, databases, etc.