Holland Computing Center Updates

Crane Retirement - Notice

by Holland Computing Center
Since 2013, HCC has operated and maintained multiple generations of the Crane HPC cluster alongside other HPC clusters. Due to the original hardware being well out of warranty and becoming unmaintainable, Crane is set to be retired as an
Announcement
Crane

Swan now available for use!

by Holland Computing Center
New
Swan
Announcement
HCC is launching its newest cluster, Swan, for general use by the University of Nebraska community. Swan expands HCC's computing resources greatly, having nearly 3-4 times the computing power Crane's hardware provided while occupying less

Jupyter Notebook App Retirement

by Holland Computing Center
The Jupyter Notebook app on Crane and Rhino’s Open OnDemand will be retired on May 20th, 2022.  The Notebook app has been superseded by the Jupyter Lab environment, which provides all the functionality of Notebook and more.  All notebooks
Crane
Rhino
Announcement
Software

Crane: Returned to Service

by Holland Computing Center
The Crane resource is available for use once again after a much needed downtime to upgrade the base operating system to CentOS 8. If you encounter any issues or have any questions please contact us at hcc-support@unl.edu. The main methods
Crane
Announcement
Maintenance

Crane: Downtime Update

by Holland Computing Center
While there was intent to have Crane available for general use no later than today (Monday April 12th) some unfortunate hardware failures over the weekend and this morning have made it necessary to postpone opening Crane until tomorrow
Crane
Announcement
Maintenance

Crane: Extended Downtime Announcement

by Holland Computing Center
The CRANE cluster will undergo an extended downtime beginning April 5th. This downtime will be used to upgrade the operating system used on the cluster from an EL6 base to an EL8 base. While it has served us well for over half a decade, the
Crane
Announcement
Maintenance

Standalone JupyterHub and Sandstone deprecation on Monday, Dec. 21

by Holland Computing Center
As previously announced, the standalone JupyterHub/Sandstone interfaces available via the web at crane.unl.edu and rhino.unl.edu will be deprecated and removed on Monday, December 21st. Current and future Jupyter notebooks will...
Announcement
Rhino
Crane

Standalone JupyterHub and Sandstone deprecation

by Holland Computing Center
Dear HCC User Community, The standalone JupyterHub/Sandstone interfaces available via the web at crane.unl.edu and rhino.unl.edu will be deprecated and removed following the conclusion of the Fall Semester in late December. Current...
Announcement
Crane
Rhino

Open OnDemand now available

by Adam Caprez, Applications Lead
Announcement
Improvement
Crane
Rhino
HCC is pleased to announce the availability of the Open OnDemand interface for the Crane and Rhino clusters. Open OnDemand (OOD) is an NSF-funded open-source HPC portal with the goal of providing an easy to use web-based interface to...