3 months agoHCC Newsletter - May 2025by Holland Computing CenterCommon Retirement Reminder As a quick reminder, the $COMMON filesystem is retiring on July 1st, 2025. Any data that has not been transferred or backed up before July 1st, 2025 will be permanently lost. Please note that HCC will not
12 months agoFINAL REMINDER: Removal of Oracle Java from HCC systems effective August 1st, 2024by Holland Computing CenterIn 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
about 1 year agoRemoval of Oracle Java from HCC systemsby Holland Computing CenterIn 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
over 1 year agoMaintenance Downtime Updateby Holland Computing CenterAll 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
about 3 years agoSwan 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
over 4 years agoCrane: Returned to Serviceby Holland Computing CenterThe 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
over 4 years agoCrane: Downtime Updateby Holland Computing CenterWhile 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
over 4 years agoCrane: Extended Downtime Announcementby Holland Computing CenterThe 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