Author: Craig Stancl, Scott Bauer, Cory Endle
Email: Stancl.craig@mayo.edu, bauer.scott@mayo.edu, endle.cory@mayo.edu
Team: LexEVS
Contract: S13-500 MOD4
Client: NCI CBIIT
National Institutes of Heath
US Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this document is to document the technical face to face meeting details between the NCI and Mayo for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) LexEVS Release 6.3 and LexEVS Release 6.4 .
2015 December Face-to-Face Meeting Notes
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1W030 | Overview and Planning |
Attendees: Jacob, Larry, Kim, Jason, Craig, Cory, Sarah Elkins, Gilberto, Rob
- The group spent time reviewing the proposed agenda to understand who will need to attend and other logistics for the day (Tuesday)
- 9:30 - Noon
- Tech stack was discussed to determine which aspects of the tech stack to cover. First, cover the items we have listed. .
- LexEVS API Browser section - both EVS and LexEVS development teams.
- It was noticed that it is now a tech catalog - and not tech stack.
- 1:00 - 4:00 will include CTRP group
- It was noted that they will move away from Oracle.
- Need to discuss MySQL
- 4:00 - 5:00
- Thursday - Sarah may try to attend the graph/DB session.
- Automating Data Loads and customization to be included in the Wednesday 1:30-4:00.
9:30 AM - Noon | 1W030 | Discussion: Tech Stack Updates
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Discussion: LEXEVS API/Browser Performance and Usability Improvements
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Attendees: Jacob, Larry, Kim, Jason, Craig, Cory, Sarah Elkins, Gilberto, Rob
- centOS 7
- centOS 7 hasn't been used by the Mayo team (as of yet.)
- There is much interest in the automated environment setup provided by Docker.
- Sarah indicated that it would NOT be an upgrade on the existing web servers. They would recommend this for new servers.
- As of Sept 30, centOS 7 is to the current supported catalog at NCI. They still provide previous centOS 6 for several years. Redhat dates 2020 for centOS 6 and 2024 for centOS7.
- Scott also suggested the use of a Sonatype Nexus server to distribute Docker artifacts. NCI currently provides a Nexus server. However Docker artifacts are fairly large and infrastructure would need to be considered.
- Additional Docker discussion later in the week. There are 2 use cases - deploying at NCI and supporting other users (setup).
- MariaDB is a MySQL fork. Advantages aren't known at this time. The NCI database team would need provide support if MariaDB were to be used. This may be in the future Tech Catalog.
- Sarah recommended that we hold off on deciding on CentOS 7 until the use of Docker is further defined.
- Larry pointed out that centOS 7 has additional security enhancements. Jacob indicated there is no current mandates to move to centOS 7.
- Gilberto shared that the Protege Project is planning on using Docker.
- Java 8
- Scott shared that he was able to compi