Useful Resources

Available Infrastructure

  • HPC : The supercomputing facility at IITD

    • The HPC facility contains a total of 422 compute nodes with 238 CPU nodes, 161 GPU accelerated nodes and 23 Xeon Phi co-processor nodes. You can setup multiple jobs running parallely. It also comes pre-installed with a variety of software (loaded as modules) like Tensorflow, MATLAB etc.

  • GCL : General Computing Lab

    • General Computing Lab, 4th Floor, Bharti Building open throughout the day is a common workplace. Users are allowed to login to any of the computers after an account is created and a storage space is provided which is preserved. This is also required for you to request a webpage hosting.

  • Baadal : The IITD internal cloud

    • Baadal has 32 blade servers each with 48 core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz and 377 GB RAM, a n*10Gbps ethernet backbone and 10 TB of virtualized storage. You can request a VM from the link above after logging in. Backup and power management are also offered. These VMs are also used for creating evaluation servers for students.

  • Meeting Room Booking System

    • Once you have your GCL login ready, you can use the same to book meeting rooms in CSE/SIT from here.

  • Github IITD

    • Local github to allow sharing code privately. Note that www.github.com also offers an academic version where private repositories are allowed.

Health

  • Hospital Facilities

    • The IITD Hospital offers a large number of facilities which can referred to by visiting the hospital. A number of specialists also visit the hospital on a regular basis.

  • YourDOST: IITD's partner for Emotional Health

    • PhD is a hard time emotionally and mentally as well. You can sign up on the above link for professional advice for free using a "@iitd.ac.in" email address. This is accessible from inside/outside the campus and available as a mobile app as well. Sometimes, talking helps.

Junior Woodchucks Guidebook

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/140AmAKo4cveRYwrppO0iuV9O4Utt_kPbFijIcIxaZD4/pub

Reading groups

  • Vertecs

    • Reading group in the broad areas of Programming Languages and Systems.

  • Assistive

    • Software Applications Towards Assistive Technologies for Persons with Visual Impairments

  • Neural-Symbolic Learning Reading Group

    • Reading group on integrating two major areas of artificial intelligence: neural learning and symbolic reasoning.

Worthwhile Reads for a research student