Attendees

Piet, Zach, Tom Goddard, Greg, Eric, Elaine, Scooter, Tom Ferrin

October 31, 2024

Agenda

• Scooter presenting. ​Slides.

Discussion Notes

• Endowed viz chair
  • Chimera and ChimeraX license fees have been allocated to endowed chair fund.
  • Needs more than a dozen signatures to finalize.
  • Search committee meeting not yet scheduled.
  • Another pharm chem faculty search has been ongoing for a few weeks.

• Plato NAS disk
  • Connected by two bonded 10 Gbit/sec connections. Uses NFS.
  • 17 TB RAID volume, all SSD
  • nas/databases, nas/home, nas/local mounted on plato nodes.
  • Each mount can be compressed on disk, costs about 4 percent in performance read and write.
  • Compression is not done on the client so it does not reduce bandwidth.
  • Speed of NAS seems faster than beegfs in Scooter's use, and generally more responsive.
  • Some files have been copied to databases and local.
  • Using 8K buffering good for small files, but not so good for Tbytes of data.
  • IPMI and web interfaces to configure NAS.
  • Could get more cache memory or NVMe for hundreds of dollars. Could not use old plato memory, incompatible.

• Migrating files to NAS
  • Shutdown services that read/write data, then rsync files.
  • Change /usr/local symbolic links to point to NAS location instead of beegfs location.
  • Priority is to migrate services that have problems on beegfs, web servers, Trac.
  • Home directories will stay on beegfs.
  • Want mail spool directory to be able to use NAS so mail stays working when beegfs down for maintenance.
  • Nobackup directories might stay on beegfs.

• Wynton audit
  • Scooter is lead.
  • Logs being sent to UCSF IT.
  • Data-loss prevention software scans for PHI, not feasible on Wynton. UCSF IT wants it on desktops.
  • Home directory backup system is almost ready.

• Wynton backups
  • Home directories are backed up.

• Cytoscape
  • Updating apps
  • StringApp has to migrate to new servers. Lars leaving.

• 4A neighborhood gathering
  • Tuesday Dec 3, 11 AM - 1 PM in kitchen area.
  • Have open house in N453.

• Vacation Scooter will send link to his vacation photos.

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