D4Science Infrastructure

@bartj@hum.ku.dk the D4Science inffrastructure is based on Ubuntu 14.04, there are plans to upgrade but not before the year ends (surely before 2019-04, when Ubuntu 14.04 will not be supported anymore).
Following the discussion you just linked, I can say that you can try to compile your project on Ubuntu 14.04 using gcc 5.3. It's available after installing the ubuntu-toolchain-r/test PPA. We are already using it to compile a tool used by some dataminer algorithms.
After adding the PPA, you can install the packages gcc-5 g++-5 and then use gcc-5 or g++-5 as the compiler.