Holland Computing Center Updates

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HCC Newsletter - May 2025

by Holland Computing Center

Common 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

GPN-WHPC Webinar: "A Day in the Life of A Researcher Facing HPC Specialist"

by Holland Computing Center

The GPN-WHPC Chapter (https://www.greatplains.net/community-initiatives/gpn-chapter-of-whpc) is excited to invite you to open discussion, panel session on "A Day in the Life of A Researcher Facing Specialist" on April 16th at noon CST via

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

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: 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: 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

Open OnDemand now available

by Adam Caprez, Applications Lead

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 HPC

Open OnDemand now available

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

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 [email protected]

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