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:

     Last updated: April 13, 2015


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 member
Inst. In-Kind
 
 
 
0.10
 
0.10
   
Data Acquisition
DAQ Monitoring
Inst. In-Kind
 
0.05
     
0.05
 
SECKEL, DAVID Total
 
 
 
 0.05
 
0.10
 
0.15
 
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
 
1.00
 
 
 
1.00
 
TILAV, SERAP Total
 
 
 
1.00
 
 
 
1.00
PO
GONZALEZ, JAVIER
Simulation Programs
Simulation Production Site Manager for UD
Base Grants
 
 
   
0.20
0.20
   
Reconstruction / Analysis Tools
Software maintenance : Event reco and corsika reader
Base Grants
 
 
 
 
0.20
0.20
   
Physics filters
Physics filters
Base Grants
     
0.10
 
0.10
 
GONZALEZ, JAVIER Total
 
 
 
 
 
0.10
0.40
0.50
 
DEMBINSKI, HANS
Reconstruction / Analysis Tools
Code review strike team;

IceTop simulations

Base Grants
       
0.30
0.30
   
Education & Outreach
MasterClass lead
Inst. In-Kind
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
Simulation Programs
Monitoring tools : IT parameters for new moni system
Base Grants
 
 
 
 
0.10
0.10
 
UD GR Total
 
 
 
 
 
 
0.20
0.20
UD Total
     
0.45
1.05
 
0.20
0.90
2.60
 

 

 

Faculty:  

Tom Gaisser –   Executive Committee, cosmic rays and neutrinos

Paul Evenson –  Managing Solar and heliospheric aspects of IceTop

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

Todor Stanev –  Atmospheric muons/neutrinos; Pubcom member  

Scientist:  

Serap Tilav -  IceTop data quality; IceTop operations;

 Analysis: Primary spectrum and composition

Post-docs:  

Javier Gonzalez –  Inclined shower reconstruction and simulation code; IceTop event viewer. In charge of IceTop simulations across the Collaboration and reporting to Simulation Coordination Panel; IceTop simulation code maintenance; online IceTop data filtering code maintenance.

 Analysis topics: Cosmic ray physics with IceCube

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


Ph.D. Students:

Ramesh Koirala –  Periodic data monitoring, IceTop reconstruction tools, data verification.

 Analysis: IceTop cosmic ray spectrum with the constant intensity cut method;

Hershal Pandya –  Environmental correction in simulation, simulation verification.

  Analysis: Gamma ray sources 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 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 232 computing cores (29 nodes), 56 with 2GB/core, 144 with 3GB/core and 32 with 4GB/core. There is a total of 86TB of disk space divided across 4 disk servers. The upgrades amounted to about $40,000 of hardware expenses. In addition, at least 10% of the time of IT specialist Daniel De Marco is attributable to IceCube.

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