Modes of payment

We are accepting the usage charges in the SRIC project "PARAM Shakti Usage Charge" (Code: PSU).

1. To pay the usage charges from your SRIC project or FDF, please send an email to Deepayan Maiti deepayan@eoffice.iitkgp.ac.in, SRIC, mentioning your project code and the amount with a copy to hpc@iitkgp.ac.in. The following template may be used for sending the email:
   
   “Name:
   Employee Code:
   An amount of Rs. __________(Rupees **amount in words** Only) may be credited to the PARAM Shakti Usage Charge (PSU) for the use of computational resources of PARAM Shakti by my group. The amount may be debited from my SRIC project ______(Code)/FDF.”
   
   or Click HERE to send email.
2. Upon receiving confirmation from SRIC, we will contact you regarding the breakdown of the total amount into CPU and GPU. SRIC will provide you with a receipt of the same. We will also provide you with a usage certificate to be submitted to the funding agencies.

How to Submit Jobs in the High Priority Queues:

By default, only the Faculty/PI user account can use the high priority queue against available SU. However, access can be granted to specific user(s) under their account by using the acct-manage command. The Faculty/PI must add the user to the project account using the acct-manage script.

For using the chargeable partitions, the following options must be added in the Slurm batch script:

#SBATCH -A "FAC_projectcode"
#SBATCH -q "FAC_projectcode"

The user must specify the high-priority account using #SBATCH -A "account" and the corresponding QoS using #SBATCH -q "account" in their job submission script. If these are not specified, the job may be assigned by default to the free-priority queue.

Example: If dcd and c3d are the Faculty/PI user account and the SRIC project code respectively, then the user should use the following lines in the Slurm batch script to use the partition "medium":

#SBATCH -p medium
#SBATCH -A dcd_c3d
#SBATCH -q dcd_c3d

The High-Priority Users are advised to check the priority of their submitted jobs using the sprio command. If the QoS is not receiving a higher priority, they should resubmit their jobs with the correct account specified to ensure efficient resource allocation and notify HPC Support.

How to check SU balance:

Use the command acct-manage command and select p option in the main menu to know the project details along available balance. Also, the high priority account users can view their latest account balance using hpabalance command.