Infrastructure
Campus
IIIT Hyderabad’s 66-acre campus, located on Gachibowli road (aka Old Bombay Highway) is centrally located and well connected by all means of transport. The institute is surrounded by many academic and research institutions – Hyderabad Central University, Indian School of Business (ISB), TCS-CMC, Indian Immunologicals and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Development Banking (JNIDB), and is just minutes away from the bustling HiTech City Center and Lingampally.
On campus facilities include State Bank of India branch, ATM machine, stationary shop and canteens. The campus is efficiently guarded by 24-hour security at the hostels, main gate and all academic and administrative buildings. There’s just one entry and exit point so safety and security are never compromised. Evenings on campus are a pleasant sight with well-lit streets and common areas surrounded by mature trees and lush greenery.
Labs & Workspaces
The Institute has well-equipped, air-conditioned computer laboratories with the latest hardware and software allocated to students batch-wise. The average PC-to-student ratio is 1:2. All computers are part of an intranet (1Gbps backbone), which connects all buildings including the hostels round the clock. Researchers have 24-hour access to the computational facilities. The students administer their own computer systems. Research centers provide specialized, high-end equipment as needed in research and development projects.
New workspaces have been set up for students where they can work in a quiet space. These spaces have been designed and built with modern facilities such as ergonomic chairs and desks, discussion rooms, white boards, etc and can accommodate up to 200 students at any given time.
In addition, there are two new Teaching Labs equipped with state-of-the-art teaching aids including projectors, TV screens and theatre-style seating that can accommodate up to 100 students at any given time.
In order to deliver sustainable and reliable computing resources and services to meet research demands of IIITH’s highly computational research community, the institute has a High-Performance Computing (HPC) service that provides campus researchers with cutting-edge computing infrastructure, enabling them to address scientific, application and engineering problems and solve challenges in the areas of Computer Vision, Machine/Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Bioinformatics as well as investigate chemical and biological processes such as protein folding.
The HPC cluster facility, named, “Ada” after Ada Lovelace, the first ever computer programmer, consists of 92 nodes, each equipped with dual Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 processor, 128 GB RAM, four Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti / RTX 2080 Ti GPUs and two scratch disks (2 TB SATA and 960 GB SSD SATA). The cluster has a total of 3680 CPU cores, 1472512 GPU cores and 11776 GB RAM. The aggregate theoretical peak performance is 70.66 TFLOPS.
Abacus is the first HPC cluster facility of IIITH, with a total of 59 HP SL230s compute nodes. Each node is equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2640 processors, 48 to 96 GB RAM and 2 TB scratch disk. The nodes are interconnected through Gigabit and 4X QDR Infiniband. The cluster provides about 14 TFLOPS of peak computing power.
Polymer Lab: Flexible Circuits and Systems (FleCS Lab) focuses on the development of flexible circuits, sensor systems, polymer-based device fabrication and characterization. In this lab, students have access to state-of-the-art equipment for polymer research such as spin-coater, ultrasonicator, vacuum chamber, centrifuge, precision pipettes, microscope, magnetic stirrer, and precision weighing scale. Areas of research include fabrication of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for soft robotics applications, development of polymer-based conductive inks, and development of novel flexible sensor systems.
Product Labs, the market relevant product engineering arm of technology transfer office (TTO) curates and brings relevant market/business insights to the institute, defines products based on market potential, enables market/licensing readiness of Institute research and identifies “Go To Market” owner and collaborates with partnering corporates/Investors.
Embedded Systems and IoT Lab is equipped with ARM Processor kits, ATMEGA32 boards, Altera FPGA Boards, Zed boards, TI Mixed Signal System Development kit
Optical and RF Lab consists of optical sensors, ring lasers, modulators and optical signal processing devices.
Library
The Library has a large collection of reference books, text books, technical reports, standards, literature books and CD-ROMS. It is managed by a fully integrated multi-user Library Management Software that automates cataloguing and circulation services along with a Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) facility.
A digital library is also maintained to archive useful software, books and tutorials. Students can download any permitted software from this resource. Numerous textbooks and reference books are available in the digital format as well. Many lectures have also been recorded and are available online for students to use. Most courses maintain an intranet site containing lecture slides and other course material.
The library also has a new reading room and stack area-cum-reading space where students can bring their own books to study.
More details at https://library.iiit.ac.in/
Accommodation
IIITH is a residential institute and it is compulsory for all students to stay on-campus. First year and second year students who have enrolled in Bachelor’s or dual-degree programs are required to share rooms (double occupancy) whereas, from the third year onward, students have single occupancy. An optical fiber network connects all campus buildings including the hostels.
IIITH has five hostels – three for boys and two for girls.
Palash Nivas (Old Boys Hostel) for undergraduate students from second year onwards and first -year postgraduate students. The hostel is attached to the North and South Mess.
New Boys Hostel (NBH) for postgraduate seniors and research students pursuing M.S or Ph.D. The hostel is attached to Yuktahar mess and non-vegetarian Kadamba Mess.
Bakul Nivas for undergraduate first year students and second year postgraduate students.
Old Parijaat Nivas for third and fourth year women students.
New Parijaat Nivas (New Girls Hostel) for first, second and third year women students.
The institute provides housing facilities for faculty and staff spread across 100 apartments on campus in C & D Block, as well as Anand and Budh Nivas. There’s also a guest house with four air-conditioned suites for visitors to campus.
Dining
There are 3 vegetarian (North, South and Yuktahar) and 1 non-vegetarian mess (Kadamb) on campus. Kadamb serves non-veg five times a week. Spacious and modern kitchens cater healthy and nutritious meals. Students can choose to dine at any mess.
There are also 3 canteens on campus – near Vindhya block, next to the basketball court, and at the guesthouse – that serve snacks and beverages throughout the day and late into the evening.
Sports
The institute gives sufficient incentive for everyone to excel in the sport of their choice, ranging from cricket, volleyball, soccer, basketball, table tennis, etc. IIITH also has an understanding with nearby stadiums for other sports facilities such as badminton, hockey, swimming, etc.
IIITH also has a new open air fitness park beside the basketball court kitted with four wheel shoulder builder, air skyer, cross walker, rower, roman rings with twister, shoulder press, chest press, push & dip station, air walker, knee chair, abs shaper, monkey bar, etc.
There’s also a yoga room with a trained yoga instructor who conducts classes for students, faculty and staff in the mornings as well as evenings.
Cultural spaces
Tarangini amphitheatre has 4 rooms spread across two floors, each with a specific student purpose, such as dance, music etc. and others to be used as green rooms for stage performances. Tarangini is also a WiFi enabled building with 24×7 WiFi access, so that students can use it both as a cultural and interaction spot.
IIITH has a record number of breathtaking wall murals. The walls of the barricades, benches on campus as well as some of the buildings in the campus are painted with various themes by students during Felicity, the annual college fest, as well as on other special events. This artwork tradition has been handed down by successive batches of students and is usually done by students of the Art Club.