IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

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 12,000 computing cores, including several GPUs. Since September 2014, the Penn State group has had priority access to about 200 cores, the purchased “share” of the cluster. However, our average utilization this past year has been in excess of 900 cores, with peak usage reaching over 3,000 cores. In total we used about 8 million CPU hours in the past year.

With these clusters Penn State has contributed substantially to simulation production, including the entire collaboration-wide simulation of low energy neutrinos with GENIE, PINGU simulations and reconstructions, and a significant fraction of 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 October 1, 2014.

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	Education & Outreach	Education & Outreach	Inst. In-Kind	0.05					0.05
		Engineering and R&D	PINGU Co-Lead	Inst. In-Kind	0.35					0.35
	COWEN, DOUG Total				0.40					0.40
PO	ARLEN, TIM	Simulation Production	Simulation Production	Base Grants			0.08			0.08
		Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Develop analysis tools for systematics study	Base Grants					0.20	0.20
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
		Computing Resources	Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing	NSF M&O Core			0.23			0.23
	ARLEN, TIM Total					0.03	0.31		0.20	0.54
	JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRES	Computing Resources	Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing	NSF M&O Core			0.02			0.02
		Simulation Production	Simulation Production, IceSim vetting for LowEn	Base Grants			0.01			0.01
		Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore	Base Grants					0.01	0.01
	DE ANDRES, JOAO PEDRO Total		Moving to MSU 1 Nov 14				0.03		0.01	0.04
	KEIVANI, AZADEH	Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Integrate IceCube into AMON	Inst. In-Kind			0.25			0.25
	KEIVANI, AZADEH Total						0.25			0.25
GR	HUANG, FEIFEI	Triggering & Filtering	Study PINGU/HEX hardware requirements using IceCube data & simulation	Base Grants				0.47		0.47
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
	HUANG, FEIFEI Total					0.03		0.47		0.50
PSU Total					0.40	0.06	0.59	0.47	0.21	1.73