Carina Computing Platform
Welcome to Carina!
Carina is Stanford's private cloud research compute environment for high-risk data.
Carina 2.0 Arrives in January
Carina 2.0 is our next-generation secure computing cluster. Learn more from our Frequently Asked Questions page.
What is Carina?
Carina is a secure computing environment, designed and approved for PHI and other high-risk data.
Carina is integrated with University regulations such as the Data Risk Assessment and is compliant with Stanford’s minimum security requirements for hosting High Risk Data.
Carina is available to any team led by a researcher with Principal Investigator privileges at Stanford (e.g.: faculty, or researchers with a PI waiver) working exclusively with high-risk data.
Carina is a collaboration between the School of Medicine (SOM) and Stanford Research Computing.
Carina is suitable for storing and processing NIH Controlled-Access Data
FAQ: where to use NIH controlled access data at StanfordUpcoming Downtime
Carina's scheduled maintenance happens on the 4th Tuesday of every month.