Attendees

• Zach, Eric, Elaine, Greg, TomG, Scooter, TomF

Agenda

• Made job offer to Hamish?
• Who will work on each of Phenix, NIAID, CZI, R01 grant goals? Schedule meeting.
• New desktop computer hardware.
• ChimeraX 1.3 release progress.
• Phenix interaction, anything needed in 1.3 release?
• Review Action Items list below

Discussion Notes

• New machine learning computer
  • Scooter found HP Omen machine 10 i9 cores, 64 GB ram, 2 512 NVMe, 2 TB, ~$4000, Nvidia RTX 3090, Windows 11, $4000.
  • HP machine could replace Boxx machine in vizvault
  • HP is not in Bear Buy, would need purchase order.
  • New Mac laptops expected to be announced Monday.
  • Could use wifi 6 with Quest 2 for VR, but would need security exception to run wifi 6 router. Could instead try that by home.

• R01 proposal scores
  • Reviewers meet Oct 28,29
  • Scores should be available Nov 1
  • Summary statement should be available Dec 1

• ChimeraX 1.3 release
  • Git branch made a week ago for release
  • First release candidate to be made possibly today
  • Release candidate numbers will use "rc" e.g. 1.3rc20211001

• Job offer
  • All paper work done with UCSF HR, they will send offer letter.

Action Items

• Figure out what additional plato directories need backup - Scooter
• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn - Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux - Scooter