= Attendees =

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

April 6, 2023

= Agenda =

* Elaine presenting
* NIAID new statement of work
* !ProofPoint email filtering interaction with ChimeraX bug reports and mailing list.
* New hardware
* New hire requirements
* Review Action Items listed below

= Discussion Notes =

* Commercial ChimeraX license
  - Elaine asks about company requesting free academic license for academic collaborations.
  - Scooter and Tom Ferrin will advise on how to respond.

* IT Governance meeting
  - Tom Ferrin says IT Governance discussed making 5-year plan to cover all UCSF compute needs for research, teaching, admin.
  - They want a common identity management system for researchers, faculty, students and affiliates.

* Computer security audit
  - Scooter will attend meeting on !ProofPoint email filtering on Friday.
  - Network Access Control (NAC) - Scooter requested Rocky 9 installer.
  - NAC vendor solution seems only designed for desktops, not servers.

* Chimera web service shutdown
  - Need to announce to users that Chimera web services shutting down.
  - Shutdown will probably be end of this month when plato updated to Rocky 8.
  - New Chimera release will use new ChimeraX web services.
  - Almost ready to make new Chimera release, Eric testing Chimera -> ChimeraX session converter.
  - Plan is to make Chimera release in the next few weeks, then announce.

* Wynton operating system update
  - Rocky 8 update on Wynton hitting some snags.
  - Looks like BeeGFS won't be updated.
  - Plan is to update Plato to Rocky 8 before Wynton, hopefully take just one day, first week of May.
  - Wynton down time third week of May, maximum of 5 days down.
  - Wynton will be down in Fall for power upgrades.

* New VR system
  - New Dell VR system ready to set up in vizvault.

* Reimbursements
  - Tom Ferrin renewed !PyQt license.
  - Reimbursement denied based on some technicalities.
  - Reimbursements require more documentation now than in the past.

* NIAID new contract status
  - Contract did not start in March because of UCSF finance wrong budget numbers.
  - Contract now in GuidePoint hands, have not heard from them in 2 weeks.
  - Contract will not retroactively start on March 1, so will likely be shorter than 12 months.

* Elaine journal club
  - [http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/home/meng/jclub/afvexpt.html#/ slides]
  - [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.21.517405v1 AlphaFold predictions: great hypotheses but no match for experiment]

= Action Items =

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