Services¶
These are the everyday tools that a Vishwanath Grid researcher uses. Each one is a well-established open-source project, run on Vishwanath Grid hardware, and reached through the same single login.
If you sign in at the start of the day, every tile below recognises you automatically — no second password.
Not all of these are live yet. The tools listed here are what the platform is being built around; the roadmap shows the order they come online in.
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Open OnDemand
A web page for the cluster. From here researchers submit jobs, launch a Jupyter notebook or an RStudio session on cluster hardware, and browse files — all in a browser, no terminal needed.
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JupyterHub
Multi-user Jupyter notebooks for Python, R, and Julia. Each researcher gets their own workspace; the actual work runs on cluster hardware, not the laptop.
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Forgejo
A place to keep code, datasets, and reproducibility artefacts. Works like GitHub — issues, branches, pull requests — but self-hosted on the cluster.
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OpenProject
Project management for research groups: timelines, milestones, and budget tracking. Useful for funded projects with reporting obligations.
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Wiki
Long-form group documentation — protocols, runbooks, onboarding notes, and shared knowledge that survives a student finishing their degree.
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HedgeDoc
Real-time shared notes, like a Google Doc but with Markdown. Good for meeting minutes, lab notebooks, and joint paper drafts.
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Mattermost
Team chat with channels, threads, and search. Roughly comparable to Slack; entirely self-hosted.
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Vikunja
A lightweight task tracker for individuals and small teams. Kanban boards, due dates, calendar integration.
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Grafana
Dashboards that show cluster activity — who is running what, how busy each site is, and per-group resource accounting.
For operators¶
Site administrators have a couple of extra surfaces. These are gated to operator accounts only — researchers will not see them.
- Operator console — one page with the live status of every service · console.vishwanathgrid.org
- AWX — runs the Ansible automation that keeps every partner site configured the same way · awx.vishwanathgrid.org
How the single login works¶
Every tile above sits behind one identity provider. You sign in once at auth.vishwanathgrid.org; the session carries through everything for the rest of the day.
To request an account, contact us.