Holland Computing Center Updates

Removal of Oracle Java from HCC systems

by Holland Computing Center
In accordance with University policy regarding a recent change in Oracle Java licensing, all system-wide Oracle Java installs will be removed from HCC systems no later than August 1st, 2024. All individual use of Oracle Java on HCC systems
Announcement
Anvil
Swan
Software

Maintenance Downtime Update

by Holland Computing Center
All HCC resources at our PKI datacenter including Swan, Anvil, Attic, and Globus are now available for use. Users with Anvil VMs will need to power those on via the anvil.unl.edu web interface. The final part of the power infrastructure
Maintenance

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 [email protected]. 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

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...

New ticketing system live

by Adam Caprez, Applications Lead
Dear HCC User Community, HCC has made the switch to the new ticketing system and it is live. Emails to [email protected] will automatically go into the new system. If you have a currently open ticket with the old system, you may...
Announcement
Improvement

Ticketing system switch

by Adam Caprez, Applications Lead
Dear HCC User Community, HCC will soon switch to a new ticketing system to track support requests. We are planning to make this change at the beginning of next week, coinciding with the start of the new semester. The hcc-support@unl...
Announcement
Improvement

Crane: GPU expansion available for use

by Adam Caprez, Applications Lead
HCC is pleased to announce a major addition of GPU resources to the Crane cluster, funded by a recent Nebraska EPSCoR award. This expansion consists of 21 GPU-enabled nodes, each with 2 x Nvidia Tesla V100 cards with 32GB RAM. This...
Announcement
Crane
Improvement