1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Students:
    6. Computing Resources:

Last updated: September 13, 2011

 

 

Last updated: April 18, 2011

 


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (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

      Physics Filters Tau WG Chair Inst. In-Kind            
0.25
   
0.25

    COWEN, DOUG Total        
0.25
       
0.25
   
0.50

    DEYOUNG, TYCE Education & Outreach Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
               
0.05

      Physics Filters Deep Core WG - Co Chair Inst. In-Kind            
0.25
   
0.25

    DEYOUNG, TYCE Total        
0.05
       
0.25
   
0.30

PO KOSKINEN, JASON Simulation Production Simulation Production Inst. In-Kind      
0.17
       
0.17

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Coordinate reconstruction scripts for production Inst. In-Kind              
0.20
0.20

        Computing Resources Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing NSF M&O Core        
0.25
       
0.25

    KOSKINEN, JASON Total              
0.42
 
0.20
0.62

GR BELL, MICHAEL Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Inst. In-Kind    
0.03
         
0.03

  BELL, MICHAEL Total        
0.03
       
0.03

  DUNKMAN, MATT Reconstruction/ Analysis tools develop starting track reconstruction - hybrid reco Inst. In-Kind               
0.25
0.25

    Physics Filters develop and verify DeepCore filters Inst. In-Kind      
0.17
 
0.17

      Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts, Inst. In-Kind    
0.03
           
0.03

    DUNKMAN, MATT Total            
0.03
 
0.17
0.25
0.45

PSU Total          
0.30
0.06
0.42
0.67
0.45
1.90

 
 

 

 

 

Summary:

Penn State contributions to the maintenance and operations of IceCube include:


Faculty:

Doug Cowen (L,+) - ExecComm member, Tau WG leader, outreach, 100% IceCube

Peter Mészáros - theory, 10% IceCube

Tyce DeYoung – Deep Core WG Co-Chair, Deep Core filters, coordination with HAWC, outreach, 50% IceCube


Scientists and Post Docs:

Jason Koskinen – Develop and verify Deep Core filters, Monitoring , 100% IceCube

        Reconstruction modules: DeepCoreVeto, fillRatio      


Students:

Matt Dunkman – Starting track reconstruction development, Develop and verify Deep Core reconstructions and filters, Monitoring, 80% IceCube (half time TA fall 2011, full time RA spring and summer 2012)

        Reconstruction modules: HybridReco

Michael Bell – monitoring, 25% IceCube (full-time TA fall and spring, 100% IceCube for summer 2012)


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 2920 computing cores. Of these, the Penn State group has priority on 244 cores. Our historical average utilization for the past year has been 100-200 cores, with peak usage levels around 500 cores for several weeks at a time.

With these clusters Penn State has contributed substantially to simulation production, including the entire collaboration-wide simulation of tau neutrinos, all Deep Core and IC+TWR simulation of electron, muon, and tau neutrinos, the largest amount of downgoing muon simulation outside of UW and DESY for IC, IC+TWR, IC+Deep Core, and IC+HEE, and to the generation of splines. These resources have also been used to run large amounts of the official collaboration Level 2 IC40 filtering at Penn State.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the period beginning April 1, 2011 . The staffing level of 4 (3 1 1.5) with 3.65 FTE on IceCube represents a considerable reduction from the initially assumed level of 7 (3 4 4) with 9.1 FTE, due to lower than expected levels of NSF base grant funding. As a result we have been forced to reduce our M&O level of effort from the original 3.94 FTE to the present 1.90 FTE, by eliminating for the second year running the level of effort in DAQ trigger support, all support for verification and flasher calibration activities, and all previous contributions to the collaboration-wide selection of science-ready data.

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