[1] The center was named after Omaha businessman Richard Holland who donated considerably to the university for the project.
The retrofitted facilities at the PKI location include the Crane Supercomputer[3] which “is used by scientists and engineers to study topics such as nanoscale chemistry, subatomic physics, meteorology, crashworthiness, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics”[4] and Anvil, the Holland Computing Center's "Cloud" based on the OpenStack Architecture.
Other resources include "Rhino" for shared memory processing and "Red" for LHC grid computing.
[5] As of May 2019, Crane is composed of 548 nodes offering a total of 12,236 cores, 68,000 GB[clarification needed] of memory, and 57 Nvidia GPU's.
At its creation in June 2019, Rhino was composed of 112 nodes offering a total of 7,168 cores, 25,856 GB of memory.
Attic is HCC's near-line data archival system for researchers to use either in aggregation with the computing resources offered, or independently.
Prairiefire was the first notable cluster with the Holland computing center, ranking in the TOP500 for 3 consecutive years,[6] 2002, 2003, and 2004, placing 107th, 188th, and 292nd respectively.
At the time of its 2002 TOP500 placement, it had 128 nodes with 2, dual core AMD AthlonMP CPUs, 2 GB of memory.
Before retiring in July 2013, Firefly consisted of 1151 nodes, each with 2 dual core AMD Opteron processors, 8 GB of memory, and a total of 150 TB of storage.