1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
  1. University of Delaware
    1. Tom Gaisser
    2. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 7 (4 3 2)
    3. Ph.D. Students:
    4. Computing cluster:

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IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

 

 

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University of Delaware


Tom Gaisser


Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 7 (4 3 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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
GAISSER, TOM
Administration
Executive Com.; Institutional lead
Inst. In-Kind
0.20
 
 
 
 
0.20
 
GAISSER, TOM Total
 
 
0.20
 
 
 
 
0.20
 
SECKEL, DAVID
TFT Coordination
TFT Board
Inst. In-Kind
 
 
 
0.10
 
0.10
   
Administration
Pubcom member
 
 0.05
       
 0.05
   
Data Acquisition
DAQ Monitoring
Inst. In-Kind
 
0.05
     
0.05
 
SECKEL, DAVID Total
 
 
 0.05
 0.05
 
0.10
 
0.20
 
STANEV, TODOR
Administration
Pubcom member
Inst. In-Kind
 0.10
 
 
 
 
0.10
 
STANEV, TODOR Total
 
 
 0.10
 
 
 
 
0.10
 
EVENSON, PAUL
Administration
Managing solar and heliospheric

aspects of IceTop

Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05
 
EVENSON, PAUL Total
 
 
 0.05
 
 
 
 
0.05
SC
TILAV, SERAP
IceTop Operations
Coordinate IceTop Operations
NSF M&O Core
 
0.75
 
 
 
0.75
   
Data Quality
Data monitoring
Inst. In-Kind
       
0.10
0.10
 
TILAV, SERAP Total
 
 
 
0.75
 
 
0.10
0.85
PO
GONZALEZ, JAVIER
Simulation Programs
Simulation Production Site Manager for UD
Base Grants
 
 
   
0.25
0.25
   
Reconstruction / Analysis Tools
Software maintenance: Event reco and corsika reader
Base Grants
 
 
 
 
0.20
0.20
 
GONZALEZ, JAVIER Total
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.45
0.45
 
DEMBINSKI, HANS
Reconstruction / Analysis Tools
Code review strike team;

IceTop simulations

Base Grants
       
0.30
0.30
   
Education & Outreach
MasterClass lead
Base Grants
0.10
       
0.10
 
DEMBINSKI, HANS Total
 
 
0.10
 
 
 
0.30
0.40
GR
PANDYA, HERSHAL
Simulation Programs
sim-services
Base Grants
 
 
 
 
0.10
0.10
 
KOIRALA, RAMESH
TFT Coordination
Two station trigger
Base Grants
 
 
 
 0.10
 
0.10
 
UD GR Total
 
 
 
 
 
 0.10
0.10
0.20
UD Total
     
0.50
0.80
 
0.20
0.95
2.45
 

 

 

Faculty:  

Tom Gaisser –   Executive Committee, cosmic rays and neutrinos

Paul Evenson –  Managing Solar and heliospheric aspects of IceTop

David Seckel –  TFT board / DAQ monitoring, Scintillators, Gen2 R&D

Todor Stanev –  Atmospheric muons/neutrinos; Pubcom member  

Scientist:  

Serap Tilav -  IceTop data quality; IceTop operations; scintillators

 Analysis: Primary spectrum and composition

Post-docs:  

Javier Gonzalez –  Air shower reconstruction and simulation code. In charge of IceTop simulations across the Collaboration and reporting to Simulation Coordination Panel; IceTop simulation code maintenance; online IceTop data filtering code maintenance. Gen2 R&D

 Analysis topics: Cosmic-ray physics with surface muons

Hans Dembinski – Event reconstruction and simulations; Event viewer software, member of IceCube software strike team

 Analysis: Cosmic-ray physics with surface muons


Ph.D. Students:

Ramesh Koirala –  Data monitoring shift, IceTop two-station trigger and filter verification.

  Analysis: Spectrum in the knee region with small showers in IceTop

Hershal Pandya –  Data monitoring shift; CORSIKA reader maintenance, simulation verification.

 Analysis: Gamma ray and cosmic-ray composition with IceCube; muon production depth


Computing cluster:


UD is part of the IceCube system of distributed computing. The IceCube cluster at UD is used primarily for simulation (CORSIKA) production of air showers and development of simulations of 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 has been upgraded from time-to-time since then. After the current upgrade, the IceCube portion of the Bartol-UD cluster now consists of 272 computing cores (28 nodes), 200 with 2GB/core, 40 with 3GB/core and 32 with 4GB/core. There is a total of 90TB of disk space divided across 3 disk servers. The UD share of the cost if upgrades amounted to about $40,000 in total.

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