= Attendees =

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

On-site Genentech Hall N436A

= Agenda =

* Scooter presenting
* CentOS 7 support for SBGrid
* ChimeraX 1.4 release schedule
* NIAID contract
* Review Action Items listed below

= Discussion Notes =

* NIAID contract
  - Have not heard from MSC, but contract is supposed to start May 1.

* Poster printer
  - Technician will look at it today, try to fix it.
  - Money may be available to repair it from water damage due to fire a year ago.

* American Association for Cancer Research conference
  - Scooter gave Cytoscape cancer talk in New Orleans
  - About 150 people attended presentation

* Vizvault projector
  - Tom Ferrin still looking for a vendor

* PyQt license was renewed for 1 year

* New hardware
  - Zach is trying new Philips 4K display, works great
  - Mac Studio machine ordered for Eric
  - Need top order display for Eric
  - Department discourages using credit cards for purchases.
  - But only computer vendors through Bear Buy are Dell, B+H and CDWG with limited offerings.

* Stanford ChimeraX tutorial
  - TomG gave tutorial to Wah Chiu's cryoEM class of 8 students on-site

* New Cytoscape / Chimera app
  - New Cytoscape app to look at distance variation between atoms in MD trajectories published last month.
  - Interacts with Chimera, PyMol and VMD for structure display.

* ChimeraX 1.4 release for CentOS 7
  - SBGrid says half of 440 ChimeraX users in last 6 months on CentOS 7, used it 7800 times.
  - Greg is trying compiling Qt 6 on CentOS 7.
  - If compiling fails then ChimeraX 1.3 will be last release for CentOS 7.

* Wynton update from Scooter
  - BeeGFS parallel file system from ThinkParq
    * data stored on multiple servers
    * also has multiple metadata servers
    * serves 400 wynton nodes
    * 18 storage servers
    * will have 10 petabytes of storage soon.
    * 24 metadata servers (12 mirrored)
    * metadata servers can get out of sync requiring resync
    * ThinkParq provided patch to fix deadlock
  - BeeHive
    * future database that optimizes metadata access
    * helps scans of files system, like unix "find" or malware scans
  - Backups
    * IS3 (UC Information Security Standard) mandates backups for availability level 3
    * Wynton had storage failure last year
    * Backups are only for disaster recovery, only latest copy of files
    * Have $500K to work on a backup solution
  - Archival backups
    * Might use Rubrik service
    * Samba server pulls data
    * Users opt in
    * Needs single group that can access all files to be backed up
    * Users will have to pay
    * Scooter not fond of this plan
  - Upgrades
    * 13 new GPU nodes, 4 A40 gpus each, installed and soon to be available.
    * New AMD CPUs available with many cores
    * Two new storage servers, using 16 TB instead of 10 TB drives
    * Wynton averaging 300K jobs/day, about 30 per core per day.

= 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