# Backend Plugins

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/backend-plugins/7565>\
**Category:** Plugins\
**Created:** [October 26, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/backend-plugins/7565 "2026-10-26T20:10:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/backend-plugins/7565/1 "2026-10-26T20:10:36Z")

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I mentioned in the [long term vision](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/long-term-vision/7557/9) that I’d like to get more **backends** to allow users to do “one click submit.”

The trick, of course, is that running different programs on different clusters usually takes some scripting, e.g.

```bash
# copy files around
module load orca/6.1.1
orca caffeine.inp > caffeine.out  
# copy files back

```

Now some _local_ calculations are a bit easier - check for the program name in the PATH / user environment and just run it.

How much should stay in Avogadro? How much should be in a separate program? How much depends on the server?