1. Campus Networking: Campus networking to connect all the buildings in the institute to computer center and main institute network is going to start.The networking backbone is on the optical fibre and the bandwidth for every computer is 100 MBps.
2. Few laptops were procured to be used for giving presentations and doing computing work when on a visit.
3. New Ups room is constructed with the adequate facilities for the change-over of load to another ups. 3 nos. 20 KVA ups are also shifted in this which are providing the power to computers and related devices in the main institute building.
4. Softwares like Mathematica were upgraded and no. of user licenses were also increased. Newer versions of SuSe, Redhat and Openbsd were purchased so as to upgrade the users desktop operating systems and other systems.
5. Firewall with the systems having OpenBsd operating system is placed.
6. 2 Nos. Intel Xeon based machines for the Ino project were procured.
7. Hri's new domain name was registered as hri.res.in. Existing domain name mri.ernet.in will also continue for atleast an year.
8. Webmail service was also started on system connected to internet via ERNET link. ( this is besides the existing webmail which is on VSNL link )
9. Hri's name server, mail server were upgraded to latest operating system.
10. Seismic station was established by the BARC, Bombay and the seismic related data is being transferred via the ANUNET VSAT facility.
11. 2 Nos. Sun Blade 2000 workstations are procured under the HEP project.
12. File Server SUN Fire 280R with storage A1000 with RAID and Super DLT ( 320 GB ) is purchased.
13. Conversion of large nos. of video tapes into the video files is already done.
14. Anti-Virus software is installed on all the windows computers and on the central mail-server for preventing the entry of virus infected mails/files in our network.
15. Computing related to conferences were held in the conference computer center.

Current Activities and plans

1. Upgradation of computers and procuring few more laptops is in process.
2. Upgradation of computer center is being planned.
3. Upgradation of printers in computer center and hub rooms is also being planned.
4. One high end Compaq Alpha Server is being purchased under the cryptography project.
5. Shifting of all the ups in the new ups room.
6. Secure channel installation in the ANUNET and expanding the usuage of ANUNET for other services also.
7. Procurement of the softwares like Crystal etc are also being planned.
8. Upgradation of internet bandwidth is being planned.