Many sites, one cluster
Each partner university keeps its own servers on campus. A shared scheduler treats those servers as one big pool — so a researcher's job can run wherever there is free capacity that day.
Research computing · India
Shared research compute for Indian universities.
Vishwanath Grid is a research-computing cluster that several Indian universities run together. A researcher submits a job on one campus; the work runs on whichever partner site has free capacity. Every piece of software in the stack is open-source.
It is early — one pilot site live at MIT-WPU Pune, two more universities in onboarding. This site is the public-facing snapshot of what we are building.
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Pilot site live at MIT-WPU Pune
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Indian universities joining next
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Login for every research tool
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Open-source stack, top to bottom
How it works
Open source, end to end
Every piece of software is open-source under a permissive licence. Nothing here depends on a paid subscription that can be turned off later.
One login, everything
Sign in once at the start of the day. The same login carries through job submission, code hosting, project tracking, and group chat. No second password.
Partners can see everything
Every job, queue position, and resource accounting record is visible to the partner site that owns the hardware. No black boxes.
Built in phases
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Phase 0 · Pilot, running today
HTCondor at MIT-WPU
The pilot site runs at MIT-WPU Pune. It uses HTCondor — a long-established research-cluster scheduler that also runs at CERN, NASA, and many university labs — so the experience is familiar to anyone who has used a national HPC facility.
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Phase 1 · In progress
Two more universities joining
Adding two more Indian universities as partner sites. Once it works, a researcher logging in from any partner campus can launch a job that runs on any other partner's hardware.
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Phase 2 · Planned
The everyday-research toolkit
On top of the cluster, the everyday tools a research group already uses — web-based job submission, Jupyter notebooks, code hosting, project tracking — all behind the single login.
Phase 0 · Pilot, running today
Phase 1 · In progress
Phase 2 · Planned
Academic anchor
Anchored at MIT-WPU, under the MAEER trust
Vishwanath Grid is hosted by the research-computing group at the MIT World Peace University, Pune — part of the MAEER Trust, the academic group founded by Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad and the broader MIT family of institutes in Pune. The cluster carries his name as a small acknowledgement of the educational mission that made the host campus possible.
Project lead · PI
Runs the day-to-day build of Vishwanath Grid — architecture, site bring-up, the federation model, and the open-source tooling around it.
Founder, MAEER · UNESCO Chair
Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad
Founder of the MAEER trust and the MIT group of institutes in Pune; UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance. Vishwanath Grid carries his vision of education as a service to society into the research-computing layer.
Host institution
MIT World Peace University
The pilot site lives at MIT-WPU Pune, part of MAEER's MIT group of institutes. The research-computing group here runs day-to-day operations until the federation grows.
Collaborating research centre
COVISE
A research initiative at MIT-WPU collaborating on the scientific-computing workloads the grid is being designed for.
If you are an academic partner
Partner universities contribute a small amount of hardware to the shared pool and, in return, their researchers can use the whole federation. There is no per-job cost between partners.
How partnership works →If you fund research infrastructure
Phase 0 is funded and run by the MIT-WPU research-computing group. We are talking to funders about Phase 1 — adding partner sites and engineering capacity. Happy to share more in a call.
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