wiki:2021-10-7

Attendees

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

Agenda

  • Make job offer to Hamish?
  • AlphaFold on Wynton, launch job from plato?
  • Phenix interaction, will be in 1.3 release?
  • ChimeraX 1.3 release progress.
  • New desktop computer hardware.
  • Who will work on each of Phenix, NIAID, CZI, R01 grant goals?
  • Review Action Items list below

Discussion Notes

  • Computer security audit
    • We will move computers Alexander and Aristotle to wynton to avoid P4 security requirements which involves extensive management and paperwork due to large number of users (LDAP, kerberos).
  • Collaboration opportunity
    • Scooter says Joe Derisi has zebrafish cell tracking in lightsheet microscopy at CZI, wants analysis and VR.
    • Joe will have his postdoc or student get in touch with TomG.
  • Phenix R24 grant
    • TomG will send Eric and Zach phenix r24 doodle tech meeting link for next week.
  • New hire
    • Scooter will get job offer going for Hamish, has talked to everyone in group.
  • CZI essential software grant
    • CZI essential software grant meeting November 2-4, Zoom, Scooter and TomG will sign up, possible 10 minute talk and demo.
  • Computer hardware
    • Scooter is looking for Nvidia 3090 (24 GB video memory) machine to buy for machine learning applications.
    • May purchase memory and NVMe disk later to keep cost within limits.
    • Can consider buying gpu node for wynton, ~$25K for 4 A40 GPUs, allows our lab to run gpu jobs > 2 hours and host ChimeraX user jobs. First we need to test feasibility of ChimeraX user AlphaFold job submission.
    • qsub being installed on plato by wynton admins to submit jobs from plato, for use via a ChimeraX a web service.
  • Zach onboarding
    • Send Zach links to funded ChimeraX grants.
    • Add Zach to google calendar, rbvi events. Scooter did this.

Action Items

  • Create tutorial for putting model on web page - TomG
  • 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
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