The Astronomy team at the University of Louisville is providing documentation about how to setup openSUSE for a better experience for the daily job:

http://www.astro.louisville.edu/mediawiki/index.php/OpenSuse

Maybe we can provide better experience packaging some of the stuff that they require, even providing a sub-project that they can maintain.

So far they are not using CUDA for the calculations, but this is a topic that can also be revised.