diff --git a/f/freetype/freetype-2.8.eb b/f/freetype/freetype-2.8.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fb046e20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/f/freetype/freetype-2.8.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+name = 'freetype'
+version = '2.8'
+
+homepage = 'http://freetype.org'
+description = """FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and
+ portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display
+ servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = [GNU_SAVANNAH_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [('libpng', '1.6.29')]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/freetype-config', 'lib/libfreetype.a', 'lib/libfreetype.so', 'lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc'],
+    'dirs': ['include/freetype2'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/h/h5py/h5py-2.7.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/h/h5py/h5py-2.7.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc0de95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/h/h5py/h5py-2.7.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'h5py'
+version = '2.7.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s-base'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/jupyter/testpath'
+description = """Test utilities for code working with files and commands"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017a'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/07/22/992b1eaa9a33caa40c0fc700bbd5db60da0335c3b581fe1fc72296942736/']
+sources = ['%(name)s-%(version)s-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13', '-base', True),
+    ('HDF5', '1.8.18', '-serial'),
+    ('numpy', '1.13.0', versionsuffix, True),
+    ('mpi4py', '2.0.0', versionsuffix ),  # required for MPI support
+]
+
+use_pip = True
+unpack_sources = False
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/h5py'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [('python', '-c "import h5py; assert(h5py.__version__ == \'%(version)s\')"')]
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/k/Keras/Keras-2.0.5-intel-2017a-Python-3.6.1.eb b/k/Keras/Keras-2.0.5-intel-2017a-Python-3.6.1.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4c5e4492
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k/Keras/Keras-2.0.5-intel-2017a-Python-3.6.1.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'Keras'
+version = '2.0.5'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s'
+
+homepage = 'https://keras.io/'
+description = """Keras is a minimalist, highly modular neural networks library, written in Python and
+capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '7.1.0-2.28'}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+use_pip = True
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.6.1', '', True),
+    ('Tensorflow', '1.2.0',),
+#   ('h5py', '2.7.0', '%(versionsuffix)s'), internal Python 3.6.1
+#   ('PyYAML', '3.12', versionsuffix),      internal Python 3.6.1
+]
+
+# it defaults to Tensorflow
+modextravars = {'KERAS_BACKEND': 'tensorflow'}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/l/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.29.eb b/l/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.29.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c885984d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/l/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.29.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libxslt'
+version = '1.1.29'
+
+homepage = 'http://xmlsoft.org/'
+description = """Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project
+ (but usable outside of the Gnome platform)."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = [
+    'http://xmlsoft.org/sources/',
+    'http://xmlsoft.org/sources/old/'
+]
+
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.4'),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/l/libyaml/libyaml-0.1.7.eb b/l/libyaml/libyaml-0.1.7.eb
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..bc24bc7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/l/libyaml/libyaml-0.1.7.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libyaml'
+version = '0.1.7'
+
+homepage = 'http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML'
+description = """LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+sources = ['yaml-%(version)s.tar.gz']
+source_urls = ['http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/']
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ["include/yaml.h", "lib/libyaml.a", "lib/libyaml.%s" % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ["lib/pkgconfig"]
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/l/lxml/lxml-3.8.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/l/lxml/lxml-3.8.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f971bfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/l/lxml/lxml-3.8.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+easyblock = "PythonPackage"
+
+name = 'lxml'
+version = '3.8.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://lxml.de/'
+description = """The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = ['http://lxml.de/files/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TGZ]
+
+python = 'Python'
+pythonversion = '2.7.13'
+pyshortver = '.'.join(pythonversion.split('.')[:2])
+
+versionsuffix = "-%s-%s-base" % (python, pythonversion)
+
+dependencies = [
+    (python, pythonversion, '-base'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.4'),
+    ('libxslt', '1.1.29'),
+]
+
+pylibdir = "lib/python%s/site-packages/%%(name)s" % pyshortver
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': [('%s-%%(version)s-py%s.egg' % (pylibdir, pyshortver),
+              '%s-%%(version)s-py%s-linux-x86_64.egg' % (pylibdir, pyshortver))],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-2.0.2-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-2.0.2-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..108b97b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-2.0.2-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+easyblock = "PythonPackage"
+
+name = 'matplotlib'
+version = '2.0.2'
+
+homepage = 'http://matplotlib.org'
+description = """matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of
+ hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python
+ and ipython shell, web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/f5/f0/9da3ef24ea7eb0ccd12430a261b66eca36b924aeef06e17147f9f9d7d310/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+
+python = "Python"
+pythonversion = '2.7.13'
+pyshortver = ".".join(pythonversion.split(".")[:-1])
+
+versionsuffix = "-%s-%s-base" % (python, pythonversion)
+
+dependencies = [
+    (python, pythonversion, '-base'),
+    ('freetype', '2.8'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.29'),
+    ('numpy', '1.13.0', versionsuffix),
+]
+
+pyprefix = 'lib/python%s/site-packages' % pyshortver
+eggname = 'matplotlib-%%(version)s-py%s-linux-x86_64.egg' % pyshortver
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': [('%s/%%(name)s' % pyprefix, '%s/%s' % (pyprefix, eggname))],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/m/mpi4py/mpi4py-2.0.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/m/mpi4py/mpi4py-2.0.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9953017
--- /dev/null
+++ b/m/mpi4py/mpi4py-2.0.0-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'mpi4py'
+version = '2.0.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-2.7.13-base'
+
+homepage = 'https://bitbucket.org/mpi4py/mpi4py'
+description = """MPI for Python (mpi4py) provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for
+ the Python programming language, allowing any Python program to exploit multiple processors."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017a'}
+
+source_urls = [BITBUCKET_DOWNLOADS]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13', '-base', True),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/mpi4py'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/n/numpy/numpy-1.12.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/n/numpy/numpy-1.12.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..17567379
--- /dev/null
+++ b/n/numpy/numpy-1.12.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name = 'numpy'
+version = '1.12.1'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s-base'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.numpy.org'
+description = """NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things:
+ a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran
+ code, useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities. Besides its obvious scientific uses,
+ NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be 
+ defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_ZIP]
+
+#patches = ['numpy-1.12.0-mkl.patch']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13', '-base'),
+]
+
+# check that numpy is present in python and in proper version
+sanity_check_commands = [('python', '-c "import numpy; assert(numpy.__version__ == \'%(version)s\')"')]
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/n/numpy/numpy-1.13.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/n/numpy/numpy-1.13.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7bc8f47c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/n/numpy/numpy-1.13.0-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'numpy'
+version = '1.13.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s-base'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/jupyter/testpath'
+description = """Test utilities for code working with files and commands"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/dd/b5/47bd2174dbb14e5fa2dd6ad28fd1d54d38e84d29c1b131a00354ddb0cae0/']
+sources = ['%(name)s-%(version)s-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13', '-base'),
+]
+
+use_pip = True
+unpack_sources = False
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/numpy'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [('python', '-c "import numpy; assert(numpy.__version__ == \'%(version)s\')"')]
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/p/PyYAML/PyYAML-3.12-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/p/PyYAML/PyYAML-3.12-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1978a42b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p/PyYAML/PyYAML-3.12-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+easyblock = "PythonPackage"
+
+name = "PyYAML"
+version = "3.12"
+
+homepage = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/"
+description = """PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for the Python programming language."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+python = "Python"
+pythonversion = "2.7.13"
+py_short_ver = ".".join(pythonversion.split(".")[0:2])
+
+versionsuffix = "-%s-%s-base" % (python, pythonversion)
+
+dependencies = [
+    (python, pythonversion, '-base'),
+    ('libyaml', '0.1.7'),
+]
+
+options = {'modulename': 'yaml'}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%s/site-packages/yaml' % py_short_ver],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/p/Python/Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/p/Python/Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7f0ef15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p/Python/Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Built with EasyBuild version 2.8.0 on 2016-07-13_09-40-51
+easyblock = "EB_Python"
+name = 'Python'
+version = '2.7.13'
+versionsuffix = '-base'
+
+homepage = 'http://python.org/'
+description = "Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively."
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'opt': True, 'optarch': True}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.python.org/ftp/%(namelower)s/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TGZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('libreadline', '7.0'),
+    ('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.17.0'),
+    ('Tk', '8.6.6'),
+]
+
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel')]
+
+#buildopts = 'CPPFLAGS="-I/apps/all/bzip2/1.0.6/include -I/apps/all/zlib/1.2.8/include -I/apps/all/ncurses/5.9/include -I/apps/all/SQLite/3.8.8.1/include" LDFLAGS="-L/apps/all/bzip2/1.0.6/lib -L/apps/all/zlib/1.2.8/lib -L/apps/all/ncurses/5.9/lib -L/apps/all/SQLite/3.8.8.1/lib:$CPPFLAGS"'
+
+exts_list = [
+    ('setuptools', '36.0.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/'],
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s.zip',
+    }),
+    ('pip', '9.0.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/'],
+    }),
+    ('nose', '1.3.7', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nose/'],
+    }),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/p/phonopy/phonopy-1.11.12.5-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/p/phonopy/phonopy-1.11.12.5-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9877175
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p/phonopy/phonopy-1.11.12.5-intel-2017a-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'phonopy'
+version = '1.11.12.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://phonopy.sourceforge.net/'
+description = """Phonopy is an open source package of phonon calculations based on the supercell approach."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/4b/25/effde7ab68249fbed654dc317354a028597bfd4a4f804d7cb3ed987c55b7/']
+sources = ['%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz']
+
+python = 'Python'
+pythonversion = '2.7.13'
+pythonshortversion = '.'.join(pythonversion.split('.')[:-1])
+
+versionsuffix = "-%s-%s-base" % (python, pythonversion)
+
+dependencies = [
+    (python, pythonversion, '-base'),
+    ('matplotlib', '2.0.2', versionsuffix),
+    ('lxml', '3.8.0', versionsuffix),
+    ('PyYAML', '3.12', versionsuffix),
+    ('numpy', '1.13.0', versionsuffix),
+    ('h5py', '2.7.0', '-intel-2017a%(versionsuffix)s'),
+]
+
+pylibdir = "lib/python%s/site-packages/%%(name)s" % pythonshortversion
+
+moduleclass = 'phys'
diff --git a/s/scipy/scipy-0.19.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb b/s/scipy/scipy-0.19.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..843495d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/s/scipy/scipy-0.19.1-Python-2.7.13-base.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'scipy'
+version = '0.19.1'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s-base'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/jupyter/testpath'
+description = """Test utilities for code working with files and commands"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+source_urls = ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/8e/43/a7b400e7ea07220fb419f0669ff17f5ef71653cf32827315224bc9dda9d4/']
+sources = ['%(name)s-%(version)s-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13', '-base'),
+    ('numpy', '1.13.0', versionsuffix),
+]
+
+use_pip = True
+unpack_sources = False
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/scipy'],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [('python', '-c "import scipy; assert(scipy.__version__ == \'%(version)s\')"')]
+
+moduleclass = 'math'
diff --git a/t/Tensorflow/Tensorflow-1.2.0-Python-3.6.1.eb b/t/Tensorflow/Tensorflow-1.2.0-GCC-7.1.0-2.28.eb
similarity index 100%
rename from t/Tensorflow/Tensorflow-1.2.0-Python-3.6.1.eb
rename to t/Tensorflow/Tensorflow-1.2.0-GCC-7.1.0-2.28.eb