wiki:Dev2025-8-18

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ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Greg, Zach, Tom, Eric

August 18, 2025

Agenda

  • Main ChimeraX Trac page is password protected, ticket attachments are password protected. Can we unprotect those?
  • Where are our 8 A40 GPUs?
  • Spiffy C++ features
  • Updating prereqs.
  • Switch from PyQt to PySide?
  • ViewDockX port to Qt
  • Inside ribbon color?
  • Work in progress reports
  • Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.
  • Back up the Chimera build machine to a solid state drive, Windows 7.
  • Linux ARM64 release and download page

Discussion

  • Trac password protection
    • Tony Shaefer could not download ticket attachment because required password.
    • Also ChimeraX documentation "developer site" link also required password.
    • Greg changed Apache access control so only trac/ChimeraX/query,search,report are password protected.
  • GPU server nodes
    • Greg says two GPU server nodes are rack mounted in BH101 according to Wynton staff but not plugged in due to lack of power or cooling capacity.
    • These two nodes were purchased by Cytoscape project at UCSD.
    • Need to ask Scooter and Tom Ferrin if these two nodes should be moved to N453 machine room and turned on.
    • Also need to ask if they can be used for ChimeraX structure prediction testing and MSA server testing.
  • New C++ features
    • Eric presented new C++ features he learned implementing new atomspec parser.
    • auto, decltype, any type, initializers, raw strings, large lambdas.
  • ChimeraX PySide
    • Zach put tech preview with PySide on download page a few days ago.
    • Zach will tell Elaine about it to get some testing.
    • Developers can also use it to help uncover PySide / PyQt differences.

Action Items

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