centos 7 on xeon

After fresh installation:

yum update

Install CUDA toolkit and Nvidia driver

yum install kernel-devel  kernel-headers gcc dkms acpid

echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

 

Edit /etc/sysconfig/grub

Append ‘rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau’ to end of ‘GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”…”‘

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
 
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

systemctl set-default multi-user.target

reboot
 
./cuda_7.5.18_linux.run
 

systemctl set-default graphical.target

reboot

Install Amber

see here for amber installation

Install VMD

Install precompiled version

./configure

cd src

sudo make install

Install from source code

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Install CHARMM

see here