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Roadmap

Phase 0 · Live

HTCondor at MIT-WPU.

The first compute pool runs at the MIT World Peace University Pune research-computing group, scheduled by HTCondor — the same production scheduler used by the CERN LHC computing grid, the NASA HEC programme, and roughly 100+ universities and labs worldwide.

Researchers submit jobs to a real HTCondor pool with the queue behaviour, scheduling semantics, and resource matching they would get on a national supercomputer. The pool has uptime, monitoring, and an escalation path.

Phase 1 · In motion

Multi-university federation.

Two additional Indian universities are joining as partner sites. Each new partner contributes compute capacity and gets access to the full pool in return.

  • Cross-site identity so a researcher at one partner can run a job that lands at any other partner.
  • Hardened operator tooling for unattended day-to-day operation.
  • Partner-onboarding playbook a single campus-side administrator can run.

Phase 2 · Planned

The full research-computing stack.

Once federation is stable, the grid becomes the delivery vehicle for a broader set of open-source research-computing tools — behind a single login, all permissively licensed.

  • Web job submission. No SSH.
  • Interactive notebooks and remote desktops on cluster hardware.
  • Project tracking, group documentation, data versioning.
  • Operator observability partners can self-audit.

Funding

Phase 0 is operated by the MIT-WPU research-computing group. Phase 1 funding is in active conversation with academic-partner sponsors and research-infrastructure investors. See contact.