N8-HPC News and Developments

• Existing N8-HPC cluster (Polaris) getting old. . .
• Business case for new platform went to N8 Executive Board this morning!
• 4m from N8 institutions, incl. 1m from UoM + recurrent.

Aims:

• Build a platform: hardware, s/w-infrastructure stack(s), people. . .
• . . .as a focus around which N8-wide communities can develop:
• both research and research support.