1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
      1. Scope of Work
  1. University of Wisconsin - Madison
    1. Scientists:
    2. UW-Madison Computing Resources

     Last updated: March 19, 2016


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Albrecht Karle

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 20 (6 14 12 )

 

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 HALZEN, FRANCIS Administration Principle Investigator NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
        Inst. In-Kind
0.12
       
0.12
  HALZEN, FRANCIS Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  KARLE, ALBRECHT Administration Associate Director for Science and Instrumentation NSF M&O Core
0.38
       
0.38
      ExecCom Member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
       
0.20
KARLE, ALBRECHT Total   
0.58
       
0.58
  HANSON, KAEL Administration Director of IceCube Maintenance and Operations NSF M&O Core
0.47
       
0.47
        Inst. In-Kind
0.08
       
0.08
HANSON, KAEL Total   
0.55
       
0.55
  VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Administration Pubcom member Inst. In-Kind
0.10
       
0.10
VANDENBROUCKE, JUSTIN Total   
0.10
       
0.10
SC CHIRKIN, DMITRY Detector Calibration Direct photon tracking / ice- properties calibration Base Grants    0.35    

 

 
0.35
    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Reconstruction software  

NSF M&O Core

       

 

0.25
0.25
    Simulation Programs Maintain and Verify Simulation of Photon Propagation and update Ice Properties  

NSF M&O Core

       
0.40
0.40
  CHIRKIN, DMITRY Total      
0.35
   
0.65
1.00
  DESIATI, PAOLO Simulation Production Simulation Production Manager NSF M&O Core    
0.30
   
0.30
    Simulation Production Simulation Production streamlining programs for the cloud, GPU NSF M&O Core    
0.30
   
0.30
    Simulation Production Simulation Production panel chair Inst. In-Kind    
0.10
   
0.10
    Detector Ops. And Maintenance IceCube Coordination Committee Chair NSF M&O Core    0.30      
0.30
  DESIATI, PAOLO Total        0.30
0.70
   
1.00
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Engineering and R&D Support Specialized simulations, designing new filters, unusual data selections, extracting specialized information NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
    Engineering and R&D Support Ongoing EMI studies & mitigation, South Pole & Northern test site instrumentation, Summer South Pole field work NSF M&O Core
0.25
       
0.25
  DUVERNOIS, MICHAEL Total   
0.50
       
0.50
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Simulation Programs NuGen maintenance NSF M&O Core        
 0.25
0.25
  HOSHINA, KOTOYO Total           
 0.25
0.25
  KAUER, MATTHEW Run Coordination Run Coordinator NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    Detector Monitoring Training and coordinating monitoring shifters NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
    Detector Monitoring Data Monitoring lead: coordinate test and feature development; design underlying analysis algorithms NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
    TFT Coordination TFT Board member Inst. In-Kind      
0.10
 
0.10
    IceTop Operations Design and build experimental apparatus for restoring IceTop detector efficiency NSF M&O Core  
0.20
     
0.20
  KAUER, MATTHEW Total      
0.90
 
0.10
 
1.00
  KELLEY, JOHN Detector Maintenance & Ops Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager NSF M&O Core  
0.65
     
0.65
    Data Acquisition DOM software: DOR device driver, DOMHub scripts, DOMCal NSF M&O Core  
0.15
     
0.15
    Data Acquisition Track DOM issues, generate detector run configurations NSF M&O Core  
0.10
     
0.10
  KELLEY, JOHN Total     
 0.90
   
 
0.90
  TOSI, DELIA Detector Calibration Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration (laboratory measurements) NSF M&O Core  
0.30
     
0.30
    IceTop Operations Test and commission experimental apparatus for restoring IceTop detector efficiency NSF M&O Core  
0.60
     
0.60
  TOSI, DELIA Total    
0.90
     
0.90
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Detector Calibration Flasher output, flasher calibration NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
    Detector Calibration DOM charge response, linearity, DOM cal support NSF M&O Core  
0.40
     
0.40
  WENDT, CHRISTOPHER Total    
0.80
     
0.80
PO Xu, Donglian Detector Calibration TBD Base Grants     0.30     
0.30
  XU, DONGLIAN Total         0.30    
0.30
PO DAY, MELANIE Simulations Production Low energy simulation   production Base Grants     0.30     
0.30
  DAY, MELANIE Total         0.30    
0.30
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Data Storage & Transfer Analysis disk Data storage review, data filters Base Grants     0.10    
0.10
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Offline Data Processing Level 2 offline processing – co-coordinator Base Grants        
0.20
0.20
  WANDKOWSKY, NANCY Total        
0.10
 
0.20
0.30
  UW PO Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.08
     
0.08
  UW PO Total      
0.08
     
0.08
GR JERO, KYLE Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Event reconstruction, angular resolution Base Grants          0.20
0.20
    Simulation programs Veto simulation, Corsika development Base Grants          0.20
0.20
  TOBIN, MORIAH Reconstruction/ Analysis Tools Low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service Base Grants         0.30
0.30
  GHORBANI, KEVIN Detector Calibration Muon time residuals/hole ice Base Grants  
0.25
     
0.25
  FAHEY, SAM Physics Filters Trigger simulations Base Grants      
0.20
 
0.20
  MANCINA, SARAH Detector Calibration muon neutrinos, DOM sensitivity Inst. In-kind  
0.20
     
0.20
  TY, BUNHENG Detector Calibration DOM glass noise Inst. In-kind  
0.20
     
0.20
  UW GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.12
     
0.12
  GR Total      
0.77
 
0.20
0.70
1.67
 UW – Madison Total    
2.23
5.00
1.40
0.30
1.80
10.73
 

 
 

 

Faculty:
 

Halzen, Francis   Principal Investigator

Karle, Albrecht   Institutional Lead, ExecCom member, Point and diffuse astrophysical neutrinos, DeepCore

Hanson, Kael   Director of IceCube Maintenance & Operations

Vandenbroucke, Justin   Low energy physics, IceCube analysis, selected point source searches, multimessenger with radio bursts

Westerhoff, Stefan   Cosmic Rays with IceCube and IceTop.

Gallagher, John   Selection of candidate point sources of neutrinos, catalogues for stacking searches and multi-wavelength observations.


Scientists:

Ahlers, Marcus   (John Bahcall Fellowship).

  Analysis: Cosmic Ray anisotropy analysis, neutrino sources

Chirkin, Dmitry  Service: Direct photon tracking with GPUs, ice properties calibration; event reconstruction software, Simulation Programs

 Analysis: energy reconstruction of high energy events, ice properties.

Desiati, Paolo  Service: Simulation Production Coordinator, Sim. Prod. Panel Chair

 Analysis: Atmospheric neutrinos, time and weather dependence of neutrino flux, charm

DuVernois, Michael (50%)  Service: Engineering Support and R&D Science Support

Hoshina, Kotoyo  (75% appointment with University of Tokyo, based in Madison)

 Service: Simulation Programs - nugen maintenance

 Analysis: Earth Core neutrino absorption (Tokyo)

Kauer, Matthew  Service: Run Coordinator, TFT Board Member, IceCube Monitoring Lead, Cosmic Ray Surface Array Development

Kelley, John (90%)  Service: Detector Maintenance and Operations Manager, DOM Cal Maintenance, DOM issues technical analysis
Tosi Delia  Service: Absolute DOM sensitivity calibration, Scintillation detectors (IceTop maintenance)
 Analysis: IceTop veto for astrophysical neutrino search
 
Wendt, Christopher (80%)  Service: Flasher output, Flasher Calibrations; DOM sensitivity, Supporting DOM charge response (lab, flashers), DOM Cal support

 

Post Docs (supervisor):

Bechtol, Keith (JV)  Service: TBD  

  Analysis: Correlations between neutrino flux and gamma ray observations

Day, Melanie (AK)  Service: Low energy simulation production

 Analysis: Neutrino oscillations with Deep Core, Non Standard Interactions

Wandkowsky, Nancy (AK)    Service: Analysis disk Data storage review, filter development

 Analysis: All flavor all sky contained vertex neutrino analysis at high energies

Donglian Xu (AK)      Service: Calibration, waveforms, cascade systematics

 Analysis: Search for neutrino flux in coincidence with fast radio transients. Investigation of non-contained high energy cascade events in IceCube

Huelst, Tova (AK)      Analysis: Search for neutrino fluxes from galactic sources, Cygnus region

 

 

Grad Students (supervisor):

Schneider, Austin (AK)  Service: Energy reconstruction of muons with contained vertex

 Analysis: Energy loss of muons

Bourbeau, James (SW)   Service: TBD

 Analysis: TBD

Fahey, Sam (JV)  Service: Trigger simulations

 Analysis: Analysis of transients

Fasig, Ben (KH)  Analysis: thermalizing neutrons

 

Ghorbani, Kevin (FH)  Service: Muon time residuals/hole ice

 Thesis /Analysis topics: Sterile neutrino search

Griffith,   Zachary (SW)   Thesis /Analysis topics: search for gamma-ray sources in IceTop with IceCube muon veto

 Service: TBD

Jero, Kyle (AK) Service: DOM linearity, sensitivity; muon event reconstruction

 Analysis: point sources, atmospheric neutrino veto

Kheirandish, Ali (FH)  Service: Supernova system rate studies

 Analysis: Supernova, GRB, Point sources

Mancina*, Sarah (AK)  Service: Calibration studies (DOM sensitivity) with muon neutrinos

  Analysis: TBD Physics with muon neutrinos (possibly point sources)

Tobin, Moriah (AK)  Service: low energy event reconstruction (BiPed), spline service

 Analysis: Atmospheric neutrino studies using IceCube's DeepCore.

Ty, Bunheng (KH)  Service: DOM noise studies

Wille, Logan (FH)   Analysis: Charm contribution to the atmospheric neutrino flux

 

* Funded by Fellowship.

 



UW-Madison Computing Resources
 

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube 7000 376 8000 376
PINGU        
Gen2        

 
The dedicated 7000 CPU cores in 2016 are in the IceCube cluster at WIPAC (NPX cluster). The processor types are: Intel X5670, E5-2680, E5-2680v2 and E5-2680v3.
 
UW-Madison also provides access to opportunistic CPU resources at UW and OSG shared clusters. The number of cores accessible this way is higher than 10.000
 
The dedicated 376 GPU cards in 2016 are in the IceCube cluster at WIPAC (including GZK). The GPU types are: 48 Nvidia M2070, 36 Nvidia GTX 690, 36 AMD 7970 and 256 Nvidia GTX 980.

 

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