Usage Charges

Form for making payment for SERC Computational Charges

Charges for usage will be based on:

High Priority Queues:

These queues have higher priority than the regular queues. The details of the queues are given in the High Priority Queues page.

The charges for using these high-priority queues are as follows:
  • Charges for CPU usage: Rs. 1.50 per CPU core hour.
  • Charges for GPU usage: Rs. 100 per GPU hour.

Note: These queues will be allowed access to the users only on advance payment.

To obtain access to these high-priority queues, users  are requested to fill the pdf form available below and send scanned pdf form of the same to nisadmin.serc@iisc.ac.in->Form

Before filling form users must have Param Pravega access. 
Regular Queues :

Regular queues are provided by default to users who have access to the Param Pravega system.

Charges for usage will be based on annual usage according to various slabs as follows. The slabs correspond to usage by a faculty’s group / lab in a year:

CPU-based Supercomputer Systems including the current (Param Pravega CPU, Roddam Narasimha CPU) systems and future systems
Annual Usage
(Number of core hours consumed in the year)		 Annual Fees(Rs.)
Aug 2019 – July 2020 Aug 2020 – July 2021 Aug 2021 – July 2022 Aug 2022 – July 2023
> 10M 1.1 Lakhs 2.2 Lakhs 3.1 Lakhs 4.7 Lakhs
> 5M and < 10M 80,000 1.6 Lakhs 2.3 Lakhs 3.4 Lakhs
> 1M and < 5M 60,000 1.2 Lakhs 1.7 Lakhs 2.5 Lakhs
> 500000 and < 1M 40,000 80,000 1.1 Lakhs 1.7 Lakhs
> 100000 and < 500000 30,000 60,000 85,000 1.2 Lakhs
> 2000 and < 100000 12,000 24,000 34,000 51,000

Free usage:

  • Usage of up to 2000 core hours in a year will be provided for free.
  •  In addition, new users will be provided 1000 core hours free to get acclimatized with the system and for debugging purposes. These free hours will have to be used within the first month of usage.
  • The above slabs are applicable for the CPU usage in the current Param Pravega system as well as the future systems, e.g., NSM system. 

Modes of payment

Faculty can either make payments against usage or can make advance payments for future usage. For both kinds of payments, the payment form given in the link at the top of this page can be used.

GPU-based Systems of the current (Param Pravega GPU, NVIDIA DGX-1, Roddam Narasimha GPU) systems and future systems

Annual Usage
(Number of GPU hours consumed in the year)		 Annual Fees (Rs.)
Aug 2019 – July 2020 Aug 2020 – July 2021 Aug 2021 – July 2022 Aug 2022   – July 2023
> 12.5K 25,000 50,000 71,000 86,000
> 10K to < 12.5K 20,000 40,000 57,000 86,000
>2K to <10K 15,000 30,000 43,000 64,000
>500 to <2K 10,000 20,000 28,000 43,000
>50 to <500 5,000 10,000 14,000  21,000
Free usage:
  • Usage of up to 50 GPU hours in a year will be provided for free.
  • In addition, new users will be provided 25 GPU hours free to get acclimatized with the system and for debugging purposes. These free hours will have to be used within the first month of usage.