The Firebird cluster can be used for research that involves Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), including ITAR and other forms of protected data. If you have a project that involves protected data and would like to explore your options with PACE, please start a conversation via emailing pace-support@oit.gatech.edu.
The Firebird cluster is a heterogeneous HPC cluster designed to meet the standards defined in NIST Special Publication 800-171. Each CUI project has its own storage, in 20 TB increments, for controlled data and applications, a dedicated headnode into which users login and submit jobs, and a pool of compute nodes that limit access to a single project at any time.