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PARAM ANANTA IITGN Supercomputing Facility

PARAM Ananta Access Form
User Type	Details
For IITGN users	( Form ) Kindly share the scanned copy of the form to anantasupport@iitgn.ac.in
For External users	( NSM User Account ) Kindly share the email confirmation of the form to anantasupport@iitgn.ac.in

PARAM Ananta Access Form

User Type

Details

For IITGN users

( Form )

Kindly share the scanned copy of the form to anantasupport@iitgn.ac.in

For External users

( NSM User Account )

Kindly share the email confirmation of the form to anantasupport@iitgn.ac.in

User / Resource Category	IIT Gandhinagar Users		External Users (Industry / Startup / Non-NSM Users)
Request Type	Normal	Priority	Normal	Priority
CPU Core (Non-Virtual)	₹0.35 per core/hour	₹0.50 per core/hour	₹1.00 per core/hour	₹1.50 per core/hour
GPU Card	₹10.00 per GPU/hour	₹15.00 per GPU/hour	₹30.00 per GPU/hour	₹45.00 per GPU/hour
PFS Storage	250 GB free per account (50 GB /home and 200 GB /scratch) Additional storage in minimum blocks of 250 GB per month @ ₹50.00

NSM (National Supercomputing Mission) approved users will be charged as per NSM policy .
Priority requests will receive higher priority for faster scheduling.
A maximum of 240 CPU cores and 2 GPU cards will be allocated per request. Users may submit any number of jobs within these limits.
Payment Terms: 100% of the cost must be paid in advance.
Taxes will be levied at actuals.
Reservation: Users can reserve HPC resources on a per-node basis. The charges for reservation are as follows:
- (a) CPU Node (48 CPU cores, 192 GB RAM): ₹30,000 per node/month
- (b) GPU Node (40 CPU cores, 192 GB RAM, two V100 (32 GB) GPUs): ₹60,000 per node/month
- (c) Charges for storage will be as per the Table above.
(Note: Taxes will be levied at actuals)
IITGN users will be provided with credit hours for accessing HPC resources. Once these credit hours are exhausted, users will be required to pay for further usage (refer to the policy)