diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_actions_selfhosted.yml b/.github/workflows/github_actions_selfhosted.yml
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+name: NWChem_CI_selfhosted
+
+on:
+  release:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 4 * * SAT'
+  repository_dispatch:
+    types: [backend_automation]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  build_workflow:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/update_main.yml
+    secrets:
+      inherit
+  build:
+    if: |
+      github.event_name == 'schedule' ||
+      (!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'ci skip'))
+    needs: [build_workflow]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 2880
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os:
+          - [self-hosted, ubuntu1604]
+          - [self-hosted, osx-arm64]
+        blas: [build_openblas]
+        blas_size:
+          - 8
+        experimental: [false]
+        armci_network:
+          - MPI-PR
+        nwchem_modules:
+          - "all python xtb"
+        fc:
+          - gfortran
+        use_simint:
+          - 1
+        use_libxc:
+          - 1
+        use_tblite:
+          - 1
+        build_plumed:
+          - 1
+        branch:
+          - main
+        include:
+          - os: [self-hosted, ubuntu1804]
+            experimental: false
+            mpi_impl: intel
+            armci_network: MPI-TS
+            nwchem_modules: "all python xtb"
+            fc: ifort
+            blas: "build_openblas"
+            use_libxc: 1
+            use_openmp: 2
+            use_tblite: 1
+          - os: [self-hosted, ubuntu1604]
+            experimental: false
+            mpi_impl: intel
+            armci_network: SOCKETS
+            nwchem_modules: "all python xtb"
+            fc: ifx
+            blas: "build_openblas"
+            use_libxc: 1
+            use_tblite: 1
+          - os: [self-hosted, fedora]
+            experimental: false
+            mpi_impl: openmpi
+            armci_network: MPI-TS
+            nwchem_modules: "all python xtb"
+            fc: gfortran
+            blas: "build_openblas"
+            use_libxc: 1
+            use_simint: 1
+            use_openmp: 2
+            use_tblite: 1
+            branch: hotfix/release-7-2-0
+          - os: [self-hosted, ubuntu2304]
+            experimental: false
+            mpi_impl: openmpi
+            armci_network: MPI-PT
+            nwchem_modules: "all python xtb"
+            fc: gfortran
+            blas: "build_openblas"
+            use_libxc: 1
+            use_openmp: 2
+            use_tblite: 1
+            branch: hotfix/release-7-2-0
+      fail-fast: false
+    env:
+        MPI_IMPL: ${{ matrix.mpi_impl }}
+        ARMCI_NETWORK: ${{ matrix.armci_network }}
+        NWCHEM_MODULES: ${{ matrix.nwchem_modules }}
+        USE_SIMINT: ${{ matrix.use_simint }}
+        USE_LIBXC: ${{ matrix.use_libxc }}
+        USE_TBLITE: ${{ matrix.use_tblite }}
+        BUILD_PLUMED: ${{ matrix.build_plumed }}
+        FC: ${{ matrix.fc }}
+        CC: ${{ matrix.cc }}
+        COMEX_MAX_NB_OUTSTANDING: 16
+        SIMINT_MAXAM: 4
+        SIMINT_VECTOR: avx2
+        BLAS_ENV:  ${{ matrix.blas }}
+        BLAS_SIZE:  ${{ matrix.blas_size }}
+        USE_OPENMP:  ${{ matrix.use_openmp }}
+    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.experimental }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 32
+          ref: ${{ matrix.branch }}
+          clean: true
+      - name: Get Instruction
+        id: get-simd
+        run: |
+          echo "simd=$(./travis/guess_simd.sh)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+        shell: bash
+      - name: Clear cache dir
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ~/cache || true
+        shell: bash
+      - name: Setup cache
+        id: setup-cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.mpi_impl}}-${{ matrix.fc}}-xcode${{ matrix.xcode_version}}-simint${{ matrix.use_simint}}-blas${{ matrix.blas}}-blas_size${{ matrix.blas_size}}-libxc${{matrix.use_libxc}}-tblite${{matrix.use_tblite}}-simd${{ env.simd }}-nwchemcache-v003
+      - name: fetch cache
+        if: steps.setup-cache.outputs.cache-hit == 'true'
+        run: |
+          ./travis/cache_fetch.sh
+      - name: compile
+        id: compile
+        run: |
+          ./travis/config_nwchem.sh
+          ./travis/compile_nwchem.sh
+      - name: Check compilation result
+        if: ${{ failure() }}
+        run: |
+          ./travis/compile_check.sh
+      - name: store cache
+        run: |
+          ./travis/cache_store.sh
+      - name: qa_test
+        id: qa_test
+        if: steps.compile.conclusion == 'success'
+        run: |
+          export TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR=`pwd`
+          unset USE_SIMINT
+          mytee=tee
+          if  [[ `uname -s` == "Darwin" ]]; then mytee=gtee; dist=Darwin; fi
+          if  test -f "/usr/lib/os-release"; then dist=$(grep ID= /etc/os-release |grep -v VERSION|head -1 |cut -c4-| sed 's/\"//g') ; fi
+          if [[ $dist == "fedora" ]]; then nprocs=2; else nprocs=3 ;fi
+          echo nprocs is $nprocs
+          source travis/nwchem.bashrc; cd QA && ./doqmtests.mpi $nprocs | $mytee >(ts "%d%b%Y %H:%M:%S" > ../../../../doqmtests.mpi.log.` date +%b%d%Y_%H:%M`)
+        shell: bash
+      - name: Check if QA testing has failed
+        if: ${{ failure() }} &&  steps.qa_test.outcome == 'failure'
+        run: |
+          ./travis/check_qas.sh
+
+  
+
+
+
+     
diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_actions_tahoma.yml b/.github/workflows/github_actions_tahoma.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fc4d223d74d
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+++ b/.github/workflows/github_actions_tahoma.yml
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+name: NWChem_CI_tahoma
+
+on:
+  repository_dispatch:
+    types: [backend_automation]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  build_workflow:
+    uses: edoapra/nwchem/.github/workflows/update_main.yml@main
+    secrets:
+      inherit
+  build_singularity:
+    needs: [build_workflow]
+    uses: edoapra/nwchem-singularity/.github/workflows/apptainer_action.ifx.yml@master
+    secrets:
+      inherit
+  test_on_tahoma:
+    needs: [build_singularity]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 2880
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os:
+          - [self-hosted, centos7]
+        branch:
+          - hotfix/release-7-2-0
+          - master
+        sing_image:
+          - ompi41x.ifx
+          - ompi41x.ifort
+          - ompi41x
+          - mpi-ts.ompi41x.ifort
+      fail-fast: false
+    env:
+        USE_LIBXC: 1
+        COMEX_MAX_NB_OUTSTANDING: 8
+        SINGULARITYENV_NWCHEM_BASIS_LIBRARY: /cluster/apps/nwchem/nwchem/src/basis/libraries/
+        SINGULARITYENV_SCRATCH_DIR: /big_scratch
+        APPTAINERENV_NWCHEM_BASIS_LIBRARY: /cluster/apps/nwchem/nwchem/src/basis/libraries/
+        APPTAINERENV_SCRATCH_DIR: /big_scratch
+        MPIRUN_NPOPT: -n
+        NWCHEM_EXECUTABLE: "singularity exec /big_scratch/nwchems.img nwchem "
+    steps:
+      - name: nwchem version tag
+        run: |
+          if [[ ${{ matrix.branch }} ==  master ]]; then
+            echo "nwversion=dev" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          else
+            echo "nwversion=720" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          fi
+      - name:  dir name
+        run: |
+          echo "dirname=nwchem-${{ env.nwversion }}${{ github.nwversion }}.${{ github.run_id }}.${{ github.run_number }}.${{ matrix.sing_image }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: Checkout QA code
+        run: |
+          pwd
+          cd ..
+          rm  -rf ${{ env.dirname }}
+          wget -q https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/tarball/${{ matrix.branch }} -O - | tar -xz --exclude=src --exclude=contrib --exclude=web --exclude=examples --exclude=doc --exclude=travis --exclude="nwxc*"  --exclude="chem-library-tests"
+          mv nwchemgit-nwchem-* ${{ env.dirname }}
+          ls -lr ${{ env.dirname }}/QA
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: load singularity image
+        run: |
+          export https_proxy=http://proxy.emsl.pnl.gov:3128
+          singularity pull -F --name ./nwchems_`id -u`.img oras://ghcr.io/edoapra/nwchem/nwchem-${{ env.nwversion }}.${{ matrix.sing_image }}:latest
+          srun -N $SLURM_NNODES -n $SLURM_NNODES cp ./nwchems_`id -u`.img /big_scratch/nwchems.img
+        shell: bash
+      - name: run qa tests
+        run: |
+          cd ../${{ env.dirname }}/QA
+          env|egrep SLUR
+          source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh
+          module purge
+          module load gcc/9.3.0
+          module load openmpi/4.1.4
+          export https_proxy=http://proxy.emsl.pnl.gov:3128
+          export MPIRUN_PATH=`which srun`
+          MYNN=$(( $SLURM_NNODES*$SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE ))
+          echo MYNN is $MYNN
+          (echo ${{ env.nwversion }}.${{ matrix.sing_image }}; ./doqmtests.mpi  $MYNN flaky ; echo ${{ env.nwversion }}.${{ matrix.sing_image }}) | tee >(ts "%d%b%Y %H:%M:%S" > ../../../../doqmtests.mpi.log.` date +%b%d%Y_%H:%M`)
+        shell: bash
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update_main.yml b/.github/workflows/update_main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4628e18e45e
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+++ b/.github/workflows/update_main.yml
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+name: update_main_branch
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
+  repository_dispatch:
+    types: [backend_automation]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  workflow_call:
+jobs:
+  update_branch:
+    if: |
+      github.event_name == 'schedule' ||
+      (!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'ci skip'))
+    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout nwchem
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          repository: nwchemgit/nwchem
+          persist-credentials: false
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: update with cherrypicks
+        run: |
+          set -ex
+          echo " pwd " `pwd`
+          git remote rename origin upstream
+          git remote add origin https://github.com/edoapra/nwchem
+          git fetch origin
+          git config user.name "edoapra"
+          git config user.email "edoardo.apra@gmail.com"
+          cd .github/workflows
+          rm -f update_main.yml github_actions_selfhosted.yml
+          curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/master/contrib/git.nwchem/update_main.txt > update_main.yml
+          curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/master/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_selfhosted.txt > github_actions_selfhosted.yml
+          curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/master/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_tahoma.txt > github_actions_tahoma.yml
+          git add update_main.yml github_actions_selfhosted.yml github_actions_tahoma.yml
+          git commit -m 'update main from nwchemgit master plus selfhosted [ci skip]' update_main.yml github_actions_selfhosted.yml github_actions_tahoma.yml
+      - name: Push changes
+        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.UPDATE_TOKEN }}
+          repository: edoapra/nwchem
+          force: true
+          branch: ${{ github.ref }}