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===Central computing facility===
The Computer Centre, established in 1970 as a central computing facility, became Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) in 1990 to provide computing facility to the faculty and students of the institute. SERC was created and fully funded by the [[Ministry of Human Resource Development]] (MHRD), Government of India to commemorate the platinum jubilee of the institute. It houses India's first petascale supercomputer [[Cray XC40]], the erstwhile fastest [[supercomputer]] in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=SERC&nbsp;— India|url=http://www.serc.iisc.in/facilities/cray-xc40-named-as-sahasrat/|access-date=29 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129113328/http://www.serc.iisc.in/facilities/cray-xc40-named-as-sahasrat/|archive-date=29 November 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ET&nbsp;— India|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-05-22/news/62504128_1_tianhe-2-petaflop-most-powerful-supercomputer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526012025/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-05-22/news/62504128_1_tianhe-2-petaflop-most-powerful-supercomputer|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 May 2015}}</ref>

Apart from functioning as a central computing facility of IISc, the SERC is engaged in education and research programs in areas relating to supercomputer development and application.  The centre is also involved in several sponsored research projects in collaboration with several high-profile government and private agencies.