Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of 2025-7-31


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Timestamp:
Jul 31, 2025, 2:21:58 PM (4 months ago)
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Tom Goddard
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  • 2025-7-31

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    1212= Discussion Notes =
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     14* New PharmChem chair
     15  - Brian  Shoichet is new pharm chem department chairman.
     16
     17* Network attached storage updates
     18  - Our plato cluster NAS disk can't update because the cannot access the internet.  Last update in February.
     19  - Also we can't check logs because 2-factor authentication needed and NAS can't access internet.
     20  - Greg has ticket to UCSF IT to allow NAS to access internet.  So far they have not responded (in some weeks).
     21  - Greg will escalate request.
     22
     23* Iron Mountain tape backups
     24  - Eric trying to get 20-25 tapes back from Iron Mountain.
     25  - UCSF cancelled contract with Iron Mountain to store tapes off-site.
     26  - We will make a new plan to keep backup tapes off-site.
     27
     28* Plato web server reliability
     29  - Has been good but with occassional spontaneous reboot with unknown cause.
     30  - Password protecting top-level ChimeraX Trac (but not individual tickets) has stopped high load average due to AI bots scraping.
     31
     32* ChimeraX dependency versions
     33  - License holder was concerned about old versions of ChimeraX dependencies like Python listed on our embedded software web page.
     34  - Greg updated the embedded software web page and made it automatically update python version and other versions.
     35  - Current ffmpeg versions are 3 and 6 on different platforms but Greg wants to update to 7.1 on all platforms.
     36
     37* Zach Chimerax builds
     38  - We release 1.10.1.  May need a 1.10.2 to get an additional fix in.
     39  - In daily builds pyopengl-accelerate needed patch to work with newer Cython 3.1.
     40
     41* Zach animation tool demo
     42  - Showed prototype animation tool, multiple tracks.
     43  - Discussion about advantages of simple ChimeraX scene time-line.
     44  - Worth looking at how Chimera animation gui worked.
     45  - Tom Goddard suggests in addition to user interface it would be nice to improve the quality of movies, e.g. reducing nauseating flying  motions.
     46
     47* Animation examples
     48  - Tom Ferrin asked Tom Goddard to show animation examples and discuss ways the animations can be improved at group meeting in 2 weeks.
     49
    1450= Action Items =