Attendees

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

On-site Genentech Hall N436A

Agenda

• Zach CZI grant progress (see attachment for slides)
• Create ChimeraX 1.4 roadmap
• NIAID contract
• Review Action Items listed below

Discussion Notes

• NIAID contract
  • Scooter will talk to Darrell and with UCSF and MSC finance people to figure out hourly vs fixed price contract.
  • Everyone should look at statement of work today and make modifications for reduction from 12 month time period to 10 months.

• Computer security
  • Some SPOKE developers work with PHI Wynton data so cannot use plato which prohibits PHI data users.
  • May setup a plato-phi wynton node that can do plato sudo SPOKE operations and be managed by wynton team meeting PHI requirements.
  • plato-phi should not effect any uses we make of plato
  • Security audit - UCSF may pay for new system administrator to implement requirements of security audit.

• Wynton
  • Scooter giving presentation next week to UCSF IT governance committee on adding backups to Wynton.

• New offices
  • Elaine is moving to Conrad's old office in N453.
  • Scooter is moving to Al's old office in N453.
  • Zach needs an office key.

• CZI grant progress report by Zach
  • Chimera session converter
    • Zach made ticket of things left to do on this.
    • Probably development will be done by Eric and TomG (volumes).
  • REST
    • Modeller has been ported from Opal to REST and is in daily builds.
    • Currently working with Eric to port alignment services to REST.
    • Plan is to have ported alignment services in ChimeraX 1.4 release.
    • Opal may be shutdown when Wynton moves to CentOS 9 in 1 to 2 years because Opal will no longer run. This will eliminate Chimera web services.
    • We should give Chimera users warning that web services are likely to be dropped in 1-2 years due to circumstances beyond our control.
  • Qt 6
    • 525 downloads of daily builds since March 11 with Qt 6
    • 7 open Qt 6 tickets, none show-stoppers
    • Still intend to release ChimeraX 1.4 with Qt 6
  • Vulkan
    • Reliable OpenGL on Mac M1 machines has made this unnecessary.
    • CZI reduced our requested funding and we told them we would drop this subproject.
  • ARM64 Mac port
    • 3 remaining packages to port: pytables, imagecodecs, netcdf4
    • netcdf4 may release arm64 port soon
    • imagecodecs and pytables available for arm64 mac on conda-forge. Can use those.
    • Scooter suggests using conda-forge packages and completing this task with minimal effort. Avoid becoming maintainers of PyPi versions of these packages.
  • PyPi library
    • Should we offer library or better non-gui ChimeraX? Definitely library.
    • Discussed current python packaging methods for metadata, setup.cfg and pyproject.toml
    • Modernizing Toolshed packaging (bundle_info.xml) need not be connected to this project. Would make it too hard.
    • TomG suggests making library in collaboration with specific developers who have requested it in the past to meet the most essential needs.

Action Items

• Move toolshed to it's own IP address and it's own Apache instance -- Greg/Scooter
• Set up toolshed test instance (UCSF only) -- Greg/Scooter
• Clean up VirtualHosts on our web servers -- Greg/Scooter
• Move webservices to https only and extensively test chimera to make sure it works
• Create self-signed certificate for webservices-test -- ongoing, Greg has run into a weird error
• Document new vpn setup on Linux -- Scooter
• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn -- Scooter
• Audit followup -- Scooter