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April 7, 2016

 

Last updated: October 15, 2011

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

Michigan State University

Tyce DeYoung

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 5 (2 3 2)

Scope of Work

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 DeYOUNG, TYCE
Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05
 
   
Administration
Deputy Spokesperson Inst. In-Kind
0.25
       
0.25
 
  DeYOUNG, TYCE Total
 
 
0.30
       
0.30
 
  MAHN, KENDALL
Simulation Programs
Integration/development of GENIE for low energy systematics Inst. In-Kind        
0.10
0.10
 
   
Administration
ICB member  
0.05
       
0.05
 
  MAHN, KENDALL Total
 
 
0.05
     
0.10
0.15
 
PO HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA
Simulation Production
Simulation Production Inst. In-Kind    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Simulation Programs
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics Inst. In-Kind        
0.20
0.20
 
   
Computing Resources
Simulation production site manager at MSU NSF M&O Core    
0.25
   
0.25
 
   
Offline Data Processing
Low energy L3 maintainer Inst. In-Kind        
0.08
0.08
 
  HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA Total
 
     
0.33
 
0.28
0.61
 
  JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRÉ
Simulation Production
Simulation Production Reconstruction, IceSim vetting for LowEn Inst. In-Kind    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore Inst. In-Kind        
0.20
0.20
 
DE ANDRÉ, JOAO PEDRO Total
   
0.08
 
0.20
0.28
 
  LENNARZ, DIRK
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Inst. In-Kind  
0.03
     
0.03
 
LENNARZ, DIRK Total
 
0.03
     
0.03
 
GR NEER, GARRETT
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Development of noise cleaning for vuvuzela noise. Inst. In-Kind        
0.50
0.50
 
   
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Inst. In-Kind  
0.03
     
0.03
 
  NEER, GARRETT Total      
0.03
   
0.50
0.53
 
GR RYSEWYK, DEVYN
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Work on improved modeling of hadronic showers in reconstruction Inst. In-Kind        
0.08
0.08
 
   
Detector calibration
In-situ DOM sensitivity calibration/angular response from muon neutrinos Inst. In-Kind  
0.42
     
0.42
 
  RYSEWYK, DEVYN Total      
0.42
   
0.08
0.50
MSU Total      
0.35
0.48
0.41
0.00
1.16
2.40
 

Michigan State contributions to the maintenance and operations of IceCube include:

Faculty:

Tyce DeYoung – Deputy Spokesperson, outreach, 95% IceCube (5% HAWC)

Kendall Mahn – low energy systematics/GENIE, ICB member, outreach, 15% IceCube (85% GENIE and T2K)

Scientists and Post Docs:

Joshua Hignight–   simprod, distributed computing, DeepCore systematics studies, Low-En L3 maintainer, 75% IceCube (25% GENIE development)

  Analysis topics: Improvements to muon neutrino disappearance analysis, joint analysis of muon disappearance and tau appearance

João Pedro A. M. de André –

 Simprod, distributed computing, Low-En production reconstruction/filtering, Low-En reconstruction methods, 100% IceCube

 Reconstruction modules: MultiNest, DirectReco

 Analysis topics: Tau neutrino appearance

Dirk Lennarz Monitoring shift, 50% IceCube (50% HAWC)

 Analysis topics: none

Ph.D. Students:

Garrett Neer  Reco/analysis tools: Development of noise cleaning algorithms for vuvuzela noise.

 Detector monitoring: shift

 Thesis/Analysis topics: solar dark matter search (low energy)

Devyn Rysewyck Reco/analysis tools: improved modeling of hadronic showers in reconstruction, DOM calibration using neutrino-induced muons.

 Thesis/Analysis topics: TBD

 

Computing Resources:
MSU Pledged Computing Resources
 

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube 0 0 728 8
PINGU        
Gen2        

 
Computing Resources Typically Available
 

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube 300 80 1000 (est.) 100 (est.)
PINGU        
Gen2        

 
NB: these totals include resources used for both simulation production and data analysis
 

The Michigan State IceCube group has access to several large computing clusters maintained and administered by the Michigan State High Performance Computing group and the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, comprising a total of approximately 8,000 computing cores, including 80 Tesla K20c GPU cards. A new cluster will be brought online in summer 2016, with 728 IceCube-dedicated cores and several IceCube-dedicated GPUs. Anticipated actual availability for IceCube is detailed separately.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the six-month period beginning May 1, 2016.  

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