Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2022-12-1

Timestamp:

Dec 2, 2022, 12:20:32 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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2022-12-1

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  = Attendees =
 
-* TomG, Zach, Eric,  Elaine, Greg, TomF
+* TomG, Zach, Eric,  Elaine, Greg, TomF, Scooter
 
 December 1, 2022
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 = Agenda =
 
-* Elaine presenting
+* Elaine presenting, work in progress
 * New hardware
 * New hire requirements
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 = Discussion Notes =
 
+* Chimera Opal web services
+  - Wynton will be updated from CentOS 7 to Rocky 8 in Spring 2023
+  - Chimera web services use Opal which will be discontinued
+  - Eric will look at whether Chimera could use the new ChimeraX web services
+  - Some Chimera web services are not available in ChimeraX (SAXS, ...)
+  - Wynton OS update will coincide with facilities management work on server room, not yet scheduled.
+
+* New four A40 GPU computer
+  - Scooter says it has not been ordered yet
+  - Should it be a shared Wynton resource?
+  - TomG says probably ChimeraX will not be running AlphaFold service on big proteins, runs take too long, 20 hours.
+  - Using the new machine for ChimeraX machine learning development, is much easier with root access.
+  - Further discussion needed to see if we should get this computer and how we will use it.
+  - Scooter says we have about 1 year to spend surplus grant funds.
+
+* Work from home
+  - Scooter suggests in January we discuss adding a second week day where lab members go to Mission Bay.
+  - TomG suggests we lose out on in-person collaboration opportunities with everyone working from home.
+
+* Elaine, work  in progress
+  - TODO: Add link to slides.
+  - New documented features
+  - New MOLEonline tutorial
+  - ChimeraX and Chimera licensing
+
+* R01 final report
+  - The last annual report for previous R01 grant due soon
+  - Tom Ferrin may ask for impact numbers, e.g. citations
+
+* RCSB mmCIF stylized format
+  - MolStar web viewer at RCSB exports mmCIF files that won't open in ChimeraX because not using fixed field widths.
+  - RCSB says not to depend on fixed field widths.
+  - Greg is asking RCSB to stick to fixed widths.
+
 = Action Items =