Guidelines for Indenting Desktops for Staff Members of IIA

Guidelines for indenting Desktops for staff members of IIA

Preamble: This document provides general guiding principles for Desktop indents by IIA staff. First one should identify the requirements in terms of projects and type of work. Three Desktop configurations are suggested below for your reference. You can choose one of them based on your requirements. Please specify your requirements by filling the following along with your indent: 1) Project / work for which the Desktop is needed

2) Does the project or your work involve lot of computation or data processing or document preparation (you may specify more than one)

3) What type of CPU needed ?

4) What is the size of the RAM needed ?

5) What is your hard disk space requirement ?

6) Does your work involve image processing ?

7) What is the size and resolution of the screen needed ?

8) What are the operating systems that you need ?

9) Do you require any other software ? If yes, then specify:

10) Do you need to run any specific applications which demand some specific configuration? Then specify the name of those applications:

11) What is your existing Desktop and/or Desktop configuration (CPU, memory and hard disk details) and when was it procured?

12) Which type of Desktop (see list below) you would like to indent. I/II/III

Note that the specifications provided in this document will be revised time to time, these specifications provide a rough benchmarks only, modifications around this is possible. One should note that the type III is only for those who wants to use only Desktops and no desktops. Those who wants to switch from Desktop environment to Desktops should consider type III (typically such individuals may not have indented for any desktop within last two years). Some Desktops may be purchased for projects like Aditya, NLST, UVIT, BGS. They can be purchased with the project money and that had to be recommended by the PI of the project. Licenses should be procured separately, Apart from operating system no licenses should be asked with the Desktop indent.

Brands : Dell/HP/Lenovo Core i3 System

Micro Tower Chassis, Intel Core i3-3240 3.4G 3M, 4GB DDR3-1600 DIMM (2x2GB) RAM, 21” LED Monitor 500GB SATA 7200 RPM USB Keyboard USB Mouse Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Edition 64bit DVD RW 3years Onsite warranty

Core i5 System

Micro Tower Chassis, Intel Core i5-3570 3.4G 6M 8GB DDR3-1600 DIMM (2x4GB) RAM, 500GB SATA 7200 RPM 21” LED Monitor USB Keyboard USB Mouse Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Edition 64bit DVD RW 3years Onsite warranty

Core i7 System

Micro Tower Chassis, Intel Core i7-3770 3.4G 8M 8GB DDR3-1600 DIMM (2x4GB) RAM, 21” LED Monitor 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM USB Keyboard USB Mouse Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Edition 64bit DVD RW NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 DP PCIe OR Equivalent 3years Onsite warranty