<div dir="ltr">Hi Justin,<div><br></div><div>How outdated are they?</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, Ubuntu-18.04 should support it out-of-the-box, and that version will be close to 3 years old when GROMACS-2021 is released (and the previous LTS won't even be supported beyond April 2021).</div><div><br></div><div>I have less experience with RedHat/CentOS, because I'm not that much into OS masochism :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Erik</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:06 PM Justin Lemkul <<a href="mailto:jalemkul@vt.edu">jalemkul@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 4/9/20 4:40 AM, Paul bauer wrote:<br>
> Hello GROMACS developers,<br>
><br>
> we discussed some updates to the current compiler and standard library <br>
> requirements for GROMACS 2021 during the developer teleconference <br>
> yesterday that I also want to share with the broader community.<br>
><br>
> Our plans are to require a C++17 standard compliant compiler starting <br>
> with GROMACS 2021, as well as a C++17 standard library.<br>
> If you think that the requirements for the standard library are too <br>
> harsh for older systems, we might work around this, but would then <br>
> still prefer updating the compiler requirements only.<br>
><br>
> We are aware that this might be a quite large change to the current <br>
> requirements, so please let us know your comments about this.<br>
><br>
<br>
Our sysadmins keep our compilers and libraries fairly outdated, so this <br>
may be a big challenge for us. I can let them know about upcoming <br>
requirements, but I do not know if they will provide new compilers and <br>
the updated C++ library.<br>
<br>
-Justin<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Erik Lindahl <<a href="mailto:erik.lindahl@dbb.su.se" target="_blank">erik.lindahl@dbb.su.se</a>></div><div>Professor of Biophysics, Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm University</div><div>Science for Life Laboratory, Box 1031, 17121 Solna, Sweden</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>