Computer Centre (CC) caters to the computational and IT related needs of the academic as well as residential community at IIT Kanpur. The main facilities provided by CC are:
- High Performance Computing.
- Institute Local Area Network covering academic area, residential area and students’ hostels.
- Email facility to over 8000 users.
- Computer Labs.
- Various software for specialized research and general use by the campus.
CC has three state of the art Data Centres with precision air conditioning for housing all the CC facilities as well as large clusters of the project PIs, office automation servers, telephone exchange and other institute servers. All the CC facilities are backed up by a UPS system and diesel generator for 24 hours uninterrupted supply. The entire facility is open round the clock.
