Attendees

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

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.3 release progress.
• Create ChimeraX 1.4 roadmap
• New desktop computer hardware.
• Review Action Items list below

Discussion Notes

• Redis for cxservices on plato
  • Zach wants redis, an in-memory key-value database on plato for cxservices.
  • Zach willing to do system admin. Scooter says not possible unless he is part of Wynton admin team.
    • Some complexity to make sure redis runs on same node as cxservices.

• Job offer
  • Offer letter to Hamish awaiting lawyer approval
  • TomF changed wording slightly that position is part of UAW Researchers union, formerly said just part of UAW (United Auto-Workers) which seemed confusing.

• Apple M1 talk for CZI
  • CZI talk is for other software developers
  • TomG gave 7 minute practice talk on ChimeraX port to Apple M1
  • Other talks in session are on 3D Slicer, a medical imaging app, on internationalization, and two talks on Fiji (GPU accel and large image data).
  • M1 Pro GPU was same speed as 2019 top end MacBook Pro AMD Vega 20 graphics.
  • M1 Pro has 16 GPU cores versus 8 GPU cores for M1 and is exactly twice as fast rendering in ChimeraX.
  • M1 Max has 32 GPU cores. Was not on display at SF or Stonestown Apple stores, so TomG could not test it.

• Dicom browser
  • Might talk to 3D Slicer developers at CZI meeting to help our DICOM effort.
  • Might be able to borrow from their dicom metadata browser.
  • Scooter suggests that Zach take on our NIAID project to add a dicom metadata browser to ChimeraX.
  • TomG wants to work on 3d volume lighting and VR for dicom data, an area where we can do better than established dicom apps like 3D Slicer.

• Web viewer for gltf
  • Jan Baumbach asked about exporting protein dimer for 3D web browser.
  • Scooter thinks MolStar is overkill, probably gltf in a 3D viewer adequate.
  • Elaine asks about WebGL output from Chimera. Not currently in ChimeraX. Greg says difficult to port.

Action Items

• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn - (waiting to see if VPN will even be allowed by campus IT) - Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux - Scooter