University of Delaware
(Paul Evenson, acting for Tom Gaisser) 6.5 (4 2.5 2) |
2.1 Program Management
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2.2 Detector Operations & Maintenance
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2.3 Computing & Data Management
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2.4 Triggering & Filtering
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2.5 Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
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Total
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0.3
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1.3
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0.45
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0.25
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0.3
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2.6
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note 1
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note 2
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note 3
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note 4
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note 5
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| (1). 0.3 for Spokesperson (Gaisser) | ||
| (2). IceTop operations (1.0 core ); 0.3 Monitoring (inc. 0.25 Kuwabara) | ||
| (3). 0.45 IceTopsim. prod. | ||
| (4). TFT member (Seckel, 0.1); atmospheric muon/minimum bias filter (Hussain, 0.15) | ||
| (5). Reconstruction tools | ||
Faculty: Tom Gaisser- Spokesperson
Paul Evenson - Acting Institutional Lead; heliospheric physics
David Seckel - TFT board / DAQ monitoring
Todor Stanev - atmospheric muons/neutrinos
Scientist: Serap Tilav - IceTop data quality; IceTop operations
Post-docs: Shahid Hussain - IceTop simulations (0.3 service)
Takao Kuwabara (50% on IceCube)- Temp. & Pressure atmospheric monitoring (0.25 service)
Grad. Students:
Bakhtiyar Ruzybaev - Small showers simulation (0.3 service)
Chen Xu - Coincident event analysis; mu bundle reco (0.3 service)
Computing cluster:
UD is part of the IceCube system of distributed computing. The IceCube
cluster at UD is used primarily for simulation production of air showers and coincident events seen by both the surface and in-ice components of IceCube. In 2008 the Bartol Research Institute of
the University of Delaware provided funds for a substantial upgrade of our computer cluster, and the cluster was upgraded again in 2009. After the latest upgrade, and the merging of other IceTop computing resources that were managed separately, the IceTop portion of the Bartol-UD cluster now consists of 80 computing cores with 2GB/core, 56 cores with 4GB/core and of 78TB of disk space divided across 8 disk servers. The upgrades amounted to about $40,000 of hardware expenses. In addition, at least $10K of the salary of IT specialist Daniel De Marco is attributable to IceCube.