ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Eric, Zach, Tom

August 7, 2023

Agenda

• Remove ChimeraX/Chimera nightly installs for non-existent machines.
• Toolshed website spinning progress never goes away.
• mmCIF out of memory
• Update ChimeraX prereqs
• ChimeraX Protein Science paper progress
• Release initial ChimeraX library on PyPi or Conda
• ChimeraX Ideas milestone clean-up.
• Install Grafana on plato to monitor web services.
• Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
• Toolshed bundle requirement checking
• Discuss possible OpenMM and VR improvements for Tristan and Altos to pursue

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Discussion

• Chimera nightly installation
  • Decided to discontinue nightly install of Chimera on developer machines.
  • Chimera seldom updated so no need to do installs automatically.
  • It has been broken because wakeonlan.py uses python2 script.
  • Didn't notice it was broken because the log output was mailed directly to Conrad.

• ChimeraX nightly installs
  • Decided to remove clemens, lewis, huck nightly install of ChimeraX. These were old Conrad machines, no longer in use.

• ChimeraX paper
  • Ready to submit.

• OpenXR
  • Tom working on porting from SteamVR to OpenXR.
  • Hello world openxr is 2000 lines.
  • Have it rendering in ChimeraX, but flickering.

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Action Items

• Present github continuous integration tutorial. Zach
• Beta releases on Toolshed - make ticket for this. Greg