Attendees

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

April 13, 2023

Agenda

• Greg presenting
• Project ideas for summer intern
• NIAID new contract
• ChimeraX 1.6 and Chimera 1.17 releases
• ProofPoint email filtering interaction with ChimeraX bug reports and mailing list.
• New hardware
• Review Action Items listed below

Discussion Notes

• Summer intern
  • Tom Ferrin will contact potential summer intern Selina Liu.
  • Possible project is machine learning medical image segmentation.
  • Another possible project is machine learning clustering.
  • If Selina interested Scooter, Zach and TomG can have Zoom meeting with her.
  • For medical imaging, Zach may work on visualization while Selina works on algorithm.

• NIAID new contract
  • Contract still not started. Held up by GuideHouse contractor.

• Greg discussing email and operating system upgrades
  • CGL primary and backup will be updated next week from CentOS 7 to Rocky 9.
  • ProofPoint Essentials will filter incoming email from off campus.
  • ProofPoint will do spam/phishing/virus filtering.
  • Attachment size limit will likely be 150 MB.
  • Greg setting up Rocky 9 virtual machine to test everything.
  • Rocky 9 does not support old ssh DSA keys.
  • Greg testing all mail filters, compiling for Rocky 9.
  • Need to setup antivirus on Rocky 9 and get firewall excemption.
  • Email will switch from sendmail to better supported postfix.
  • CGL cluster als handles DNS, redirectory, time server, and has cluster fail over.
  • Scooter suggests making git repository for email/dns/... scripts.
  • UCSF IT will consider GSuite google email as an option alternative to Microsoft Exchange.
  • Plato will be updated to Rocky 8 after CGL email. Rocky 9 is not compatible with current BeeGFS version.

• Wynton
  • Scooter says Rocky 8 update postponed until 5.
  • Will still have one day downtime during May power outage.

Action Items

• Clean up VirtualHosts on our web servers -- Greg/Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux -- Scooter
• Audit followup -- Scooter