IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U

Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: April 24, 2013

Last updated: October 15, 2011

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U

Pennsylvania State University

Doug Cowen

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 6 (3 3 2 )

nderstanding (MOU)

Scope of Work

Labor Cat.	Names	WBS L3	Tasks	Funds Source	WBS 2.1	WBS 2.2	WBS 2.3	WBS 2.4	WBS 2.5	Grand Total
					Program Management	Detector Maintenance & Operations	Computing & Data Management	Triggering & Filtering	Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
KE	COWEN, DOUG	Administration	ExecCom member	Inst. In-Kind	0.20					0.20
		Education & Outreach	Education & Outreach	Inst. In-Kind	0.05					0.05
		Administration	PINGU Co-Lead	Inst. In-Kind	0.25					0.25
	COWEN, DOUG Total				0.50					0.50
	DEYOUNG, TYCE	Education & Outreach	Education & Outreach	Inst. In-Kind	0.05					0.05
		Physics Filters	Oscillations WG - Co Chair	Inst. In-Kind				0.15		0.15
		Administration	Deputy Spokesperson	Inst. In-Kind	0.20					0.20
	DEYOUNG, TYCE Total				0.25			0.15		040
PO	KOSKINEN, JASON	Simulation Production	Simulation Production	Base Grants			0.08			0.08
		Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Coordinate reconstruction scripts for production	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
	KOSKINEN, JASON Total					0.03	0.08		0.10	0.21
	CLARK, KEN	Computing Resources	Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing	NSF M&O Core			0.25			0.25
		Simulation Production	Simulation Production	Base Grants			0.08			0.08
		Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Integrating the GENIE Monte Carlo software into IceCube software	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
	CLARK, KEN Total						0.33		0.10	0.43
	TESIC, GORDANA	Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Integrate IceCube into AMON	Inst. In-Kind					0.50	0.50
	TESIC, GORDANA Total								0.50	0.50
GR	DUNKMAN, MATT	Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	develop starting track reconstruction - hybrid reco	Base Grants					0.47	0.47
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
	DUNKMAN, MATT Total					0.03			0.47	0.50
PSU Total					0.75	0.06	0.42	0.15	1.17	2.55

Summary:

Penn State contributions to the maintenance and operations o f IceCube include:

Faculty:

Doug Cowen (L,+) - ExecComm member, PINGU co- lead, outreach, 100% IceCube
Peter Mészáros - theory, 10% IceCube
Tyce DeYoung – Oscillations WG Co-Chair, outreach, 40% IceCube

Scientists and Post Docs:

Jason Koskinen –Low-En production L2/L3 scripts , and monitoring , 100% IceCube
Reconstruction modules: DeepCoreVeto
Ken Clark – (arrived on March 5, 2012) Responsibility for simprod, distributed computing , GENIE MC software maintenance , 100% IceCube
Gordana Tesic – (arriving Oct. 2012) Integrating IceCube into AMON, 50% IceCube (on internal PSU funds, not PSU base grant)

Students:

Matt Dunkman – Starting track reconstruction development, 100% IceCube
Reconstruction modules: HybridReco
Huang -

Computing Resources:

The Penn State IceCube group has access to several large computing clusters maintained and administered by the Penn State High Performance Computing group, comprising a total of approximately 8,000 computing cores, including several GPUs. Since September 2012, the Penn State group has had priority access to 260 cores. Our historical average utilization has been around 120% of the cores to which we have priority access, with peak usage levels around 600%.

With these clusters Penn State has contributed substantially to simulation production, including the entire collaboration-wide simulation of low energy neutrinos with GENIE, all PINGU simulations, and around 10% of all simprod jobs run collaboration-wide. Substantial amounts of reconstruction development work have also been conducted using these resources.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the period beginning April 1, 2013.

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