Miscellaneous

How do I acknowledge the high performance computing facility in my presentations or publications?

We request the users to kindly use the following text to acknowledge the HPC resources.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the computing time provided on the high performance computing facility, Sharanga, at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.

Is HyperThreading enabled on the compute nodes?

HyperThreading, also known as Simultaneous multithreading by AMD is disabled on the compute nodes as we observed several performance regressions and compatibility issues.

Can I launch HTML files on the cluster?

It is well-known that the browser applications consume a lot of system memory and may hamper the performance of applications. Due to this, we have disabled the ability to forward X Server on the nodes. Therefore, it is not possible to launch HTML files on the cluster.

Can I launch GUI applications such as gnuplot?

Similar to the browser applications, GUI applications (like gnuplot) too consume a lot of memory. Under heavy load, these applications may result in out of memory and disconnection logs. Therefore, we have disabled GUI on the cluster.