29th Annual Report (2016-17)

9. Administration of Ruckus wireless network covering the office as well as residential campus. 10. Configuration ofWi-Fi support to devices such as laptops, mobile devices for end users 11. Day-to-day administration of VmWare infrastructure and various servers catering toAdministration such asAD, etc. 12. Maintenance of Video Conferencing equipment and end user support. 13. Comprehensive inventorymanagement, asset management and tracking. 14. Procurement of SSLcertificates and software for all the relevant web servers at IUCAA. 15. Management and software development for iOAS (integratedOfficeAutomation System), Tally, TDS pack. 16. Designingweb portals for various online applications. 17. End user service support to administrative staff, academicmembers, visitors and associates. 18. Infrastructure, management and coding support to IT intensive projects such asVirtual Observatory,AstroSat, LIGO, etc. 19. Procurement, installation and periodic upgradation of mathematical software such as Matlab, IDL, Mathematica meant for general IUCAAusers and cluster users. 20. Hardwaremaintenance and general systemadministration of clusters in IUCAAin co-ordinationwithOEM. 21. Assisting estate department with data centremanagement. The High Performance Computing facility houses some of themajor ITassets of IUCAA. High Performance Computing Staff of the Computing Facility at IUCAA Datacentre. The High Performance Computing clusters are seen in the background. 130