About

The problem

Indian research labs hit a compute wall every year. Commercial clouds are too expensive for sustained scientific workloads, on-premise clusters need specialised staff that universities cannot hire, and existing national HPC facilities have multi-month queues for non-priority work.

The result is real and measurable: PhD theses wait on compute time, simulation work flees to U.S. and EU clouds, and a generation of Indian researchers grows up without the infrastructure their international peers take for granted.

Our mission

To give every Indian researcher the same first-class research compute infrastructure their international peers have access to — without the lock-in, without the cost, and without the wait.

Why now

Three things make this the right time to build Vishwanath Grid:

1. Open-source HPC software has matured. Every component we need — scheduler, identity, storage, dashboards, project management — is available under permissive licenses and is already proven at scale at major international labs.
2. Hardware costs have dropped. Apple Silicon, AMD EPYC, and the Ampere ecosystem give us workstation-class compute at a fraction of the price of equivalent rack-mount gear.
3. Demand has outrun supply. Indian universities are producing more compute-bound research than at any point in their history, but the national HPC footprint has not grown proportionally.

What makes Vishwanath Grid different

• Federated, not centralised. Every partner keeps physical control of their own hardware. The grid orchestrates capacity across sites; no one institution owns the keys.
• OSS-only. No proprietary scheduler, no cloud-vendor APIs, no commercial licenses that disappear when a grant ends.
• One identity, every tool. Researchers sign in once and reach the scheduler, the data store, the collaboration tools, and the dashboards — all behind a single login.
• Transparent by default. Every job is auditable; every partner administrator sees their own usage and accounting end-to-end.