Attendees

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

March 12, 2026

Agenda

• Greg Couch
• Endowed viz position search
• Setup of server GPU nodes

Discussion Notes

• Hiring an Elaine replacement
  • Eric summarized Elaine's main duties in the lab: documentation, quality control, licensing.
  • Made compelling case that these are essential and we may need to hire a replacement if funding permits.
  • We do not have a good alternative without Elaine for quality control.
  • Tom Ferrin notes any hiring decision would have to be after seeing if R35 and R24 grants are awarded.
  • Scooter proposed that when endowed chair position filled, the lab may submit an R24 grant proposal.

• Endowed chair
  • Tom Ferrin reports that posting advertisements for filling RBVI endowed chair position is on hold because of UC-wide migration to Oracle HR management system.
  • Not clear when next steps on filling endowed chair will be possible.

• PDB web accessibility remediation
  • RBVI web site siteimprove score is 97%
  • 30 PDFs and 300 videos still flagged by UCSF accessibility project.
  • Greg tried AI PDF fixing tool on Wrappy paper. Added meta data, mangled title.
  • Tom Ferrin notes that UCOP accessibility FAQ allows an exception marked archival PDFs and videos.

• Toolshed database performance
  • Toolshed MariaDB instance was using 50% CPU.
  • Greg saw 500K https GET queries on ToolShed in 10 days, and 300K involved database query.
  • Most database queries no return cached result.

• Wynton admin scripts migration to plato
  • Greg is migrating account administration scripts from Wynton back to plato.
  • Wynton BeeGFS contract expires March 2027.
  • Expected that Wynton may be shutdown in 1 year.

Action Items