Overview of PACE Compute Clusters
PACE maintains several computing clusters for Georgia Tech’s faculty, students, and staff. Each cluster has a different purpose to allow PACE to better support the needs of the Georgia Tech community:
| Phoenix ↳ Research Computing Cluster | Research cluster open to GT/GTRI faculty (academic & research). Free-tier and paid-account options available. Faculty can add students, staff, and collaborators to their accounts. |
| ICE ↳ Instructional/Educational Cluster | Educational cluster for courses teaching high-performance computing concepts. |
| Firebird ↳ Export Controlled & CUI/ITAR Secure Computing Cluster | Research cluster for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and export controlled data. |
| Buzzard ↳ High Throughput Computing Cluster | High throughput pool connected to OSG’s OSPool; designed for researchers with many small independent jobs |
| Hive ↳ Computing for Specific Research Domains | Research cluster only available to the recipients of the NSF MRI award #1828187 and their collaborators. |
Learn More
To learn important information such as available resources (CPUs, GPUs, etc.) and potential costs (free-tier vs. paid accounts), visit Participation in PACE.
Request Access
To request access to one or more of PACE’s clusters:
For Research
Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, & Undergraduate Students with a Faculty Mentor: Faculty advisors should apply for PACE access on behalf of their students, staff, and other individuals in their research group.
Undergraduate Students without a Faculty Advisor: if you would like to use our resources but do not have a faculty advisor, you can apply to the EVPR-PACE Student HPC Innovation Program (PACESHIP) program.
For Academic Classes & Other Events
Faculty can request to use PACE’s instructional cluster to provide real-world computing experience for students. ICE is also home to the infrastructure utilized by the AI Makerspace.