The University of Leicester runs a campus-wide HPC service that is managed centrally from within IT Services. This system has a diverse user base covering three academic colleges across Science and Engineering, Medicine, Arts & Humanities and Social Science. Whilst the largest use of the service comes from the traditional HPC areas in Science and Engineering, there is significant use in other areas such as Economics and increasingly, the medical science disciplines including Health Sciences, Genetics and Cardiovascular Science departments. The campus service, called ALICE, was launched in 2010 and had its first major upgrade in 2013. In 2016, the University carried out a significant upgrade to the processing capability, to provide nearly 5,000 compute cores and will shortly complet

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