Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2022-4-28

Timestamp:

Apr 28, 2022, 6:44:35 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

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 = Discussion Notes =
 
+* NIAID contract
+  - Have not heard from MSC, but contract is supposed to start May 1.
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+* Poster printer
+  - Technician will look at it today, try to fix it.
+  - Money may be available to repair it from water damage due to fire a year ago.
+
+* American Association for Cancer Research conference
+  - Scooter gave Cytoscape cancer talk in New Orleans
+  - About 150 people attended presentation
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+* Vizvault projector
+  - Tom Ferrin still looking for a vendor
+
+* PyQt license was renewed for 1 year
+
+* New hardware
+  - Zach is trying new Philips 4K display, works great
+  - Mac Studio machine ordered for Eric
+  - Need top order display for Eric
+  - Department discourages using credit cards for purchases.
+  - But only computer vendors through Bear Buy are Dell, B+H and CDWG with limited offerings.
+
+* Stanford ChimeraX tutorial
+  - TomG gave tutorial to Wah Chiu's cryoEM class of 8 students on-site
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+* New Cytoscape / Chimera app
+  - New Cytoscape app to look at distance variation between atoms in MD trajectories published last month.
+  - Interacts with Chimera, PyMol and VMD for structure display.
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+* ChimeraX 1.4 release for CentOS 7
+  - SBGrid says half of 440 ChimeraX users in last 6 months on CentOS 7, used it 7800 times.
+  - Greg is trying compiling Qt 6 on CentOS 7.
+  - If compiling fails then ChimeraX 1.3 will be last release for CentOS 7.
+
+* Wynton update from Scooter
+  - BeeGFS parallel file system from ThinkParq
+    * data stored on multiple servers
+    * also has multiple metadata servers
+    * serves 400 wynton nodes
+    * 18 storage servers
+    * will have 10 petabytes of storage soon.
+    * 24 metadata servers (12 mirrored)
+    * metadata servers can get out of sync requiring resync
+    * ThinkParq provided patch to fix deadlock
+  - BeeHive
+    * future database that optimizes metadata access
+    * helps scans of files system, like unix "find" or malware scans
+  - Backups
+    * IS3 (UC Information Security Standard) mandates backups for availability level 3
+    * Wynton had storage failure last year
+    * Backups are only for disaster recovery, only latest copy of files
+    * Have $500K to work on a backup solution
+  - Archival backups
+    * Might use Rubrik service
+    * Samba server pulls data
+    * Users opt in
+    * Needs single group that can access all files to be backed up
+    * Users will have to pay
+    * Scooter not fond of this plan
+  - Upgrades
+    * 13 new GPU nodes, 4 A40 gpus each, installed and soon to be available.
+    * New AMD CPUs available with many cores
+    * Two new storage servers, using 16 TB instead of 10 TB drives
+    * Wynton averaging 300K jobs/day, about 30 per core per day.
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