| | 43 | == 12/21/2023 == |
| | 44 | Scooter, Elaine, Eric, Greg, TomG; Darrell, Kristen, Phil, Bhinnata |
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| | 46 | Scooter: are we aiming for 2FTEs in the new SOW? Darrell: Yes. However, last year the increase in cost was unexpected, which we were told was an accounting problem from previous years. Would not easily absorb another increase like that. Scooter: no, it should not be a substantial cost increase, just the standard COL increase. Will keep a careful eye on the amounts next time around. Darrell: we are planning for a 10% cut in NIAID funding, although the exact amount is TBD. Our first goal is to maintain personnel, and we are including you in that personnel bucket. We believe another year of support should be possible, but we are still under a CR and cannot provide certainty at this time. Scooter: we'll go ahead with 2FTE until/unless told otherwise. Darrell: yes. |
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| | 48 | Darrell: One question about VR: was there something about a bug with our new expensive graphics and a workaround? TomG: yes, involved mirroring from Desktop display... workaround was to use SteamVR's mirroring instead of the other. Phil: well, we still get this problem intermittently regardless of the workaround, an outline like a skyline flashing near the bottom of the display. TomG: maybe we can test this here by putting our 4090 card (currently used with Linux) with a Windows machine. Phil: we have 4070's with laptops, 4070TI with desktop. TomG: SteamVR vs. OpenXR? Different headsets? Phil: haven't tested those yet. Scooter: Does this need to be fixed before new SOW? Darrell: not necessarily, could be in new SOW. TomG: depends on whether we can reproduce this problem here. Scooter: we can buy a 4070TI. Darrell: we're grateful for the "white glove" service with out specific problems! |
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| | 50 | Phil: want to bring up something from when the CIT (IT for NIH) leadership team came to our lab. We set up a scene in ChimeraX and handed the controls/headset to somebody else and somehow everything got messed up. We need a button or keystroke to temporarily disable the controls before we hand them over to the person. Would like that in the SOW. Elaine: also a similar issue is saving/restoring scenes. Not yet implemented, though. Scooter: that's in our R01. |
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| | 52 | Darrell: the radiological society meeting (RSNA conference) we went to was really huge, like 40,000 people. We were demonstrating segmenting in VR with ChimeraX, and people couldn't believe that the software is free for noncommercial use. (shows slide with comparison among medical imaging viewers... Elaine: can I copy this? Darrell: I can send it to you) We continue to be interested in this area because you provide a unique set of capabilities. Scooter: we're also looking at voice input. Intend to write a paper soon on our medical image-related capabilities. Darrell: may be worth submitting this to the RSNA conference. Presenting there is considered a feather in your cap by the community maybe even more than the paper itself. You have to submit fairly far ahead of the conference. TomG: is it always in Chicago? Darrell: Yes. Phil: always the weekend after Thanksgiving. |
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| | 54 | Darrell: one of the items in the current SOW is supporting wide displays. Just wanted to mention our video wall is two 4Ks next to each other, where each is an aspect ratio that is standard to some extent. So that work will be valuable to others, not just us. |
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| | 56 | Scooter: re scheduling a visit to your lab soon. Can we make it happen in January or February? Darrell: I saw something like $15K allotted for 3 people, seems high. Scooter: we'll go with our actual expenses and it should be much less than that. Darrell: The week of Feb 19-23 has opened up since our retreat was canceled. First week of Feb some of us were traveling to visit another person. Scooter: Feb 19-23 is mostly open, I'll get together some numbers. Phil: the preceding week (Feb 12->) would also work. Darrell: oh, Feb 19 is holiday, maybe Feb 12-16 or Feb 20-23. We could advertise a seminar and/or set up demos in the atrium. Scooter: we can bring some Quest3s and also show interactive VR with medical imaging. Darrell: would like to have a nice dinner too. |
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