diff --git a/g/grace/grace-5.1.25-intel-2017a.eb b/g/grace/grace-5.1.25-intel-2017a.eb
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+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'grace'
+version = '5.1.25'
+
+homepage = 'http://freecode.com/projects/grace'
+description = """Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for X Windows System and Motif."""
+
+source_urls = ['ftp://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/grace/src/stable']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017a'}
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('motif', '2.3.7', '', True),
+    ('netCDF', '4.4.1.1'),
+]
+
+runtest = 'tests'
+
+# we also need to run make links right before or after make install.
+installopts = 'links'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/xmgrace'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/m/motif/motif-2.3.7.eb b/m/motif/motif-2.3.7.eb
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+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'motif'
+version = '2.3.7'
+
+homepage = 'http://motif.ics.com/'
+description = """Motif refers to both a graphical user interface (GUI) specification and the widget toolkit for building
+ applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems.
+ It was the standard toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment and thus for Unix."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+sources = ['%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz']
+source_urls = [SOURCEFORGE_SOURCE]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('X11', '20170314'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.29'),
+    ('xbitmaps', '1.1.1'),
+    ('freetype', '2.8'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '1.5.1'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+]
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20150215'),
+    ('flex', '2.6.3'),
+    ('Bison', '3.0.4'),
+    ('util-linux', '2.29.2'),
+]
+
+# makefile is not parallel safe
+parallel = 1
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libMrm.a', 'lib/libUil.a', 'lib/libXm.a', 'bin/mwm', 'bin/uil', 'bin/xmbind'],
+    'dirs': ['include/Mrm', 'include/uil', 'include/X11', 'include/Xm'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/o/ORCA/ORCA-4.0.1.2.eb b/o/ORCA/ORCA-4.0.1.2.eb
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/o/ORCA/ORCA-4.0.1.2.eb
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+easyblock = "PackedBinary"
+
+name = "ORCA"
+version = '4.0.1.2'
+
+homepage = 'http://cec.mpg.de/forum/'
+description = """ORCA is a flexible, efficient and easy-to-use general purpose tool for quantum chemistry
+ with specific emphasis on spectroscopic properties of open-shell molecules.
+  It features a wide variety of standard quantum chemical methods ranging from semiempirical methods to DFT to single-
+ and multireference correlated ab initio methods.
+ It can also treat environmental and relativistic effects."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
+
+sources = ['orca_4_0_1_2_linux_x86-64_openmpi202.tar.xz']
+
+# ORCA 4.0.0 is compiled only against OpenMPI 2.0.2 for Linux
+dependencies = [
+    ('OpenMPI', '2.0.2', '', ('GCC', '6.3.0-2.27'))
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['orca_%s%s' % (x, y) for x in ['anoint', 'casscf', 'cis', 'cleanup', 'cpscf',
+                                             'eprnmr', 'gtoint', 'mdci', 'mp2', 'mrci', 'pc',
+                                             'rocis', 'scf', 'scfgrad', 'soc']
+              for y in ["", "_mpi"]] +
+    ['orca_%s' % x for x in ['2mkl', 'asa', 'chelpg', 'ciprep', 'eca', 'ecplib',
+                             'euler', 'fci', 'fitpes', 'gstep', 'loc', 'mapspc',
+                                      'md', 'mergefrag', 'ndoint', 'numfreq', 'plot',
+                                      'pltvib', 'pop', 'rel', 'vib', 'vpot']],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+modextravars = {
+    "SLURM_CPU_BIND" : "none",
+    "RSH_COMMAND"    : "ssh -x",
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'chem'