Specialized Laboratories & Research Rigs
Department of Computer Science & Engineering • National Institute of Technology Hamirpur

Powering Next-Gen Computing, AI & Robotics
10 specialized computing facilities equipped with NVIDIA DGX Stations, multi-GPU clusters, isolated cyber-defense sandboxes, LoRaWAN testbeds, and dedicated doctoral suites.
NVIDIA DGX & V100 GPU Cluster
Accelerating transformer inference, deep reinforcement learning, and large-scale parallel simulations with multi-teraflop throughput.
Lab Room 101, Ground Floor
High Performance Computing & GPU Research Lab
Dedicated to high-concurrency parallel algorithms, large-scale deep learning model training, climate simulations, and distributed cloud computing.
NVIDIA DGX Station, Tesla V100 GPU nodes, dual Intel Xeon Scalable processors, 128GB RAM per node.
CUDA 12.x, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenMPI, Slurm Workload Manager, TensorRT.
Lab Room 102, Ground Floor
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Lab
Supports advanced research in autonomous robotic navigation, spatial computing, computer vision transformers, and drone swarms.
NVIDIA RTX 4090 Workstations, TurtleBot3 mobile robots, LiDAR sensors, and Intel RealSense D435 3D cameras.
Lab Room 201, First Floor
Cyber Security & Cryptography Lab
Focuses on network intrusion detection, blockchain protocols, zero-trust architectures, post-quantum cryptographic primitives, and smart contract security.
Isolated network racks, Hardware Security Modules (HSM), Wireshark packet analyzers, and air-gapped sandboxes.
Lab Room 202, First Floor
Cloud Computing & Internet of Things (IoT) Lab
Smart edge computing architectures, wireless sensor networks, telemetry data pipelines, and disaster-resilient Himalayan IoT networks.
Raspberry Pi 4 / 5 clusters, ESP32 development boards, LoRaWAN long-range gateways, and Zigbee sensor grids.
Lab Room 203, First Floor
Virtual Reality & Human Computer Interaction Lab
Spatial computing, metaverse environments, 3D anatomical surgical simulations, and accessible gesture-based user interfaces.
Meta Quest Pro & HTC Vive Focus 3 Headsets, full-body motion capture trackers, and haptic feedback gloves.
Lab Room 301, Second Floor
Data Analytics & Knowledge Engineering Lab
Dedicated to large-scale data mining, NLP information retrieval, sentiment analysis of legal documents, and knowledge graph engineering.
Apache Hadoop / Spark distributed cluster nodes, high-speed NVMe storage arrays, and enterprise DBMS servers.
Lab Room 302, Second Floor
Software Engineering & Systems Development Lab
Facilitates undergraduate software design projects, agile software engineering, test-driven development, and enterprise architectures.
CI/CD testing servers, automated code profiling testbeds, and cross-platform mobile test devices.
Lab Room 303, Second Floor
Computer Networks & Wireless Communication Lab
Covers routing protocol verification, 5G/6G network simulation, wireless ad-hoc networks (VANET/MANET), and QoS optimization.
Cisco managed Catalyst switches & routers, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controllers, NS-3 and Mininet testbeds.
Lab Room 104, Ground Floor
Microprocessor & Embedded Systems Lab
Embedded firmware development, hardware-software co-design, real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS), and VLSI interface prototyping.
ARM Cortex-M development boards, 8086/8051 microprocessor kits, FPGA development boards (Xilinx Artix-7), and digital storage oscilloscopes.
Lab Room 401, Third Floor
PG & Doctoral Research Laboratory
Dedicated full-time research environment for postgraduate dissertation work and doctoral research projects.
Dual-monitor dedicated workstations for M.Tech and Ph.D. scholars with Gigabit LAN connectivity and central cluster access.
Lab Access Protocols & GPU Resource Allocation
Undergraduate Lab Schedules
Scheduled during regular academic time slots from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM under designated faculty instructors and lab technical staff.
GPU Slurm Allocation
Doctoral & M.Tech researchers can request multi-day GPU job quotas on the DGX cluster through the Department Server Portal.
Air-Gapped Sandbox Security
Cybersecurity and malware experiments must strictly run within designated VLANs with no external physical USB insertions allowed.
