docs: Add initial version of Docusaurus based docs

This change updates the repository with a new Docusaurus-based
documentation website. This allows us to create our documentation using
Markdown, MDX and React. This will serve as the main entry point for
users visiting https://opendc.org. The actual OpenDC application will be
moved to https://app.opendc.org.

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+sidebar_position: 1
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+# Introduction
+
+OpenDC is a free and open-source platform for cloud datacenter simulation aimed at both research and education.
+
+<div className="container">
+    <div className="row">
+        <div className="col col-3 text--center">
+            <img src={require("@site/src/components/HomepageFeatures/screenshot-construction.png").default} alt="Constructing a cloud datacenter with OpenDC" />
+        </div>
+        <div className="col col-3 text--center">
+            <img src={require("@site/src/components/HomepageFeatures/screenshot-results.png").default} alt="Analysis of results reported by OpenDC" />
+        </div>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+Users can construct new datacenter designs and define portfolios of scenarios (experiments) to explore how their designs
+perform under different workloads, schedulers, and phenomena (e.g., failures or performance interference).
+
+OpenDC is accessible both as a ready-to-use platform hosted by us online at [app.opendc.org](https://app.opendc.org), and as
+source code that users can run locally on their own machine or via Docker.
+
+To learn more about OpenDC, have a look through our paper on [OpenDC 2.0](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/ccgrid21-opendc-paper.pdf)
+or on our [vision](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/opendc-vision17ispdc_cr.pdf).