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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:


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.


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.