New cluster announcement

We are pleased to announce that the new cluster is available for general use. This has been a large project, involving the following:

• Upgraded storage - new storage controllers and extra 1PB of storage
• Cluster Operating System upgrade - now running CentOS7.3
• Job scheduler upgrade - now running Univa Grid Engine 8.5.1 -
• Application rebuilds for CentOS7
• New nxv nodes- including infiniband-connected nodes for parallel jobs
• GPU nodes- 4 new nxg nodes with Nvidia Tesla K80 for gaining substantial performance increase from gpu-enabled applications
• Singularity containers - utilise Linux containers to encapsulate your software for portable and reproducible science
• Documentation site rewrite
• Stats site has been written for the new cluster.