Thanks, i hope the patches will get into the next nwchem release.
As for the openblas vs atlas i made two builds to be compared: http://nwchemgit.github.io/Special_AWCforum/st/id1145/official_RPMS_for_RHEL6_and_...
I hope to get some feedback in that thread, so I can select the version of blas, taking into account the stability and performance of the
executables.