= Attendees =

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

August 29, 2024

= Agenda =

* Eric work in progress, TODO: Add link to slides

= Discussion Notes =

* Faculty search
  - Faculty search committee is being formed to advertise for new head of RBVI.
  - Want search committee to have expertise in software development.

* Plato cluster local disk
  - We are getting a network attached storage device, Synology NAS, two 10 Gbit/sec ethernet connections, connect to Wynton core network.
  - Has 12 disk slots.  Will use our 4 plato node SSDs plus 3 new 4 TB SSDs to fill 7 slots.
  - May add additional drives to make snapshot backups.
  - Tape backups will continue to have safe offsite backups.

* Rasberry Pi
  - Tom Ferrin has not yet ordered ARM Rasberry Pi for Zach to test ChimeraX builds.
  - Zach says Qt does not support ARM on Linux.

* Purdue tutorial
  - Purdue Structural Biology and Biophsics Club asked for a ChimeraX tutorial by Zoom.
  - Tom Goddard will reply, offering to do a tutorial or question and answer session.

* Laptop projector problems
  - Eric's Mac laptop had trouble connecting to N436 projector.
  - Also the trackpad did not move the pointer reliably.
  - Rebooting the laptop fixed it.

* Eric work in progress
  - Described improvements to Phenix tools Fit Loops, Local EM Fit, Fit Ligands.
  - Demonstrated prototype Fit Ligands gui.
  - Described lots of small ChimeraX fixes.

* NIAID contract
  - Second 6 month contract period merged with items for first 6 month work items.
  - Everyone should look at the new goals.

* Dos Pinas restaurant closed

= Action Items =