Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2023-4-6

Timestamp:

Apr 6, 2023, 4:53:06 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

Tom Goddard

Comment:

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2023-4-6

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  = Attendees =
 
-Scooter, TomG,  Eric,  Elaine, Greg, TomF
+Zach, Scooter, TomG,  Eric,  Elaine, Greg, TomF
 
 April 6, 2023
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 = Discussion Notes =
 
+* Commercial ChimeraX license
+  - Elaine asks about company requesting free academic license for academic collaborations.
+  - Scooter and Tom Ferrin will advise on how to respond.
+
+* IT Governance meeting
+  - Tom Ferrin says IT Governance discussed making 5-year plan to cover all UCSF compute needs for research, teaching, admin.
+  - They want a common identity management system for researchers, faculty, students and affiliates.
+
+* Computer security audit
+  - Scooter will attend meeting on ProofPoint email filtering on Friday.
+  - Network Access Control (NAC) - Scooter requested Rocky 9 installer.
+  - NAC vendor solution seems only designed for desktops, not servers.
+
+* Chimera web service shutdown
+  - Need to announce to users that Chimera web services shutting down.
+  - Shutdown will probably be end of this month when plato updated to Rocky 8.
+  - New Chimera release will use new ChimeraX web services.
+  - Almost ready to make new Chimera release, Eric testing Chimera -> ChimeraX session converter.
+  - Plan is to make Chimera release in the next few weeks, then announce.
+
+* Wynton operating system update
+  - Rocky 8 update on Wynton hitting some snags.
+  - Looks like BeeGFS won't be updated.
+  - Plan is to update Plato to Rocky 8 before Wynton, hopefully take just one day, first week of May.
+  - Wynton down time third week of May, maximum of 5 days down.
+  - Wynton will be down in Fall for power upgrades.
+
+* New VR system
+  - New Dell VR system ready to set up in vizvault.
+
+* Reimbursements
+  - Tom Ferrin renewed PyQt license.
+  - Reimbursement denied based on some technicalities.
+  - Reimbursements require more documentation now than in the past.
+
+* NIAID new contract status
+  - Contract did not start in March because of UCSF finance wrong budget numbers.
+  - Contract now in GuidePoint hands, have not heard from them in 2 weeks.
+  - Contract will not retroactively start on March 1, so will likely be shorter than 12 months.
+
+* Elaine journal club
+  - TODO: Add link to slides
+  - [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.21.517405v1 AlphaFold predictions: great hypotheses but no match for experiment]
 
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