Services offered by Meghamala

Meghamala was conceptualized to address the computational needs of the research community at IIT Kharagpur.

To meet these demands, Meghamala offers the following services :

  • VMs4U -- Compute Nodes
    Provision a virtual machine on demand and use it as a desktop or run your workload on it. Virtual machine configuration :

    • IITKGP_MEGH_VM
      16 VCPUs
      32 GB RAM
      60 GB ephemeral storage
    Virtual machines can have the following guest operating systems options:
    • Ubuntu
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
  • Storage on the House
    • Persistent storage provided on request
    • Click here to request for a VM


We plan to add more services as time progresses.