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

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