Holland Computing Center Deploys 58-GPU PLUMAGE System With $700,000 NSF Backing

1 articles · Updated · Nebraska Today · May 15

$700,000 in NSF funding helped the Holland Computing Center launch PLUMAGE, a new GPU platform now available at no cost to University of Nebraska researchers.
PLUMAGE adds 6 NVIDIA H200 GPUs and 52 L40S GPUs to support AI and other data-intensive work that HCC says would otherwise take impractically long on conventional systems.
The system’s key feature is flexibility: researchers can run jobs through HCC’s Swan cluster or the NSF-backed National Research Platform, with GPUs shifting between batch and Kubernetes-based access modes.
HCC said demand for advanced computing is spreading beyond traditional science fields into business, architecture and social sciences, making training and user support as important as the hardware itself.
The deployment expands Nebraska’s academic supercomputing capacity and ties local resources more closely to national cyberinfrastructure networks as AI-driven research needs accelerate.

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