[MU Chem Linux Users] Upgrades and a Question

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Good morning folks.  After three weeks of working on getting the 
computer science lab systems up and running properly I have turned my 
attention to our systems in Chemistry.  Early this morning I applied 
just over 100 security patches/upgrades to Dock, installed a new kernel, 
and installed the upgraded NVIDIA video driver. The system seems to be 
running well, but let me know if you have any problems with your 
specific software packages.  I am particularly interested in autodock 
and vino.  The new driver could potentially boost the performance of 
your docking programs if we compile against it.

On another note, I am currently planning on leaving Dock running CentOS 
6.  The CentOS foundation will continue to provide updates and security 
patches for this until 2020 so the software will in all likelihood 
outlive the hardware.   However, if any of you have a pressing need to 
run CentOS 7 (in other words you have software that REQUIRES libc or 
libstdc++ version 6 or above) then let me know.  We may can build an 
experimental server to try things out.

Andy

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj