1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  1. University of Maryland
    1. Greg Sullivan
    2. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 6 (3 3 4)
    3. Scope of Work
    4. Faculty:
    5. Scientists and Post Docs:
    6. Ph.D. Students:
    7. UMD General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
    8. Institutional (UMD) resource contribution to Computing:
    9. Computing Resources

     Last updated: September 20, 2016


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

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University of Maryland


Greg Sullivan


Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 6 (3 3 4)


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
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
         
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
KE SULIVAN, GREG Administration M&O/Upgrade planning Inst. In-Kind
0.30
         
0.30
    Administration ExecCom member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
         
0.20
  SULIVAN, GREG Total     
 0.50
         
0.50
  HOFFMAN, KARA Engineering and R&D Support Detector R&D Inst. In-Kind
0.20
         
0.20
  HOFFMAN, KARA Total    
0.20
         
0.20
  UMD KE Education & Outreach E&O Inst. In-Kind
0.10
         
0.10
  UMD KE Total    
0.10
         
0.10
SC BLAUFUSS, ERIK

 

 

Online Filter (PnF) Maintain PnF Software and Online Filters NSF M&O Core  
0.20
       
0.20
    Administration Analysis Coordinator Base Grants
0.25
         
0.25
    Administration Analysis Coordinator NSF M&O
0.15
         
0.15
    Online Filter (PnF) Filter requests, bandwidth, TFT Board Member. IceTray NSF M&O  
0.30
       
0.30
  BLAUFUSS, ERIK Total    
 0.40
0.50
       
0.90
PO OLIVAS, ALEX Detector Maintenance & Operations SW Coordinator – Detector M&O NSF M&O     0.45        
0.45
    Computing & Data Management SW Coordinator – Core Software NSF M&O     0.20      
0.20
    Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools SW Coordinator – Data Quality, Reconstruction and Sim. Programs NSF M&O        
0.25
 
0.25
    Core Software Support Core Software Inst. In-Kind      0.10      
0.10
  OLIVAS, ALEX Total      
0.45
0.30
 
0.25
 
1.00
  FELDE, JOHN Online Filter (PnF) GRB filters Base Grants  
0.20
       
0.2
    Reconstruction Develop & test reconstruction Base Grants        
0.10
 
0.1
    Online Filter (PnF) Implement near real time system and analysis Base Grants  
0.30
       
0.3
  FELDE, JOHN Total      
 0.50
   
0.10
 
0.6
  CHEUNG,
ELIM 		Reconstruction Low energy Reco./ Analysis tools Base Grants        
0.25
 
0.25
GR   Online Filter (PnF) Online Filter Testing Base Grants  
0.125
       
0.125
  CHEUNG, ELIM Total      
0.125
   
 0.25
 
0.375
  SONG,
MING 		Engineering and R&D Support Detector R&D Base Grants 0.50          
0.5
  SONG, MING Total     0.50          
0.5
  MAUNU,
RYAN 		Online Filter (PnF) Online Filter Testing Base Grants  
0.125
       
0.125
    Reconstruction Reco./ Analysis tools Base Grants        
0.125
 
0.125
    Simulation Production Simulation Production site manager Base Grants       0.20    
0.20
  MAUNU, RYAN Total      
0.125
  0.20
0.125
 
0.45
  FREIDMAN, LIZ Core Software Core Software Base Grants        
 0.125
 
0.125
    Online Filter (Pnf) Datasets for filter testing & common MC datasets Base Grants  
0.10
       
0.10
  FREIDMAN, LIZ Total      
0.10
   
0.125
 
0.225
   UMD GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.06
       
0.06
  UMD GR Total      
0.06
       
0.06
UMD Total      
1.70
1.86
0.30
0.20
0.85
 
4.91
 

 


Faculty:

Greg Sullivan (L,+) – Former Spokesperson, Data Systems, ExecCom, ICB, Institution lead, Outreach, NGIC upgrade coordination

Kara Hoffman – filter development, Radio R&D, Outreach

Jordan Goodman – Coordination with Milagro/HAWC, Outreach


Scientists and Post Docs:

Erik Blaufuss –   Analysis Coordinator, TFT board Member, PnF, IceTray, SVN repository, Operations Group

  Analysis topics: GRB

John Felde –  Online – near realtime GRB analysis

 Analysis topics: GRB, Neutrino Oscillations

Alex Olivas –  Tuesday Call co-convener, Software management, Simulation program coordinator, Software Coordinator

 Analysis topics:


Ph.D. Students:

Ming Song –  Detector R&D

 Thesis/Analysis topics: GZK Neutrinos

Elim Cheung –  Offline Processing development & testing, Simulation

 Thesis/Analysis topics: Neutrino Oscillations

Ryan Maunu –  Filter development, Simulation production coordination

 Thesis/Analysis topics: GRB with Southern hemisphere muons

Liz Friedman – Core Software, Datasets for filter testing & common MC datasets

 Thesis/Analysis topics: TBD

 


UMD General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

The Maryland Group’s major responsibilities and contributions towards maintenance and operations of the IceCube experiment include:

·   Primary institutional responsibility for the maintenance of the online PnF filter system.

·   Primary institutional responsibility for the maintenance of the IceTray analysis framework, SVN code repository and software package building.

·   Major responsibility for the maintenance of the IceCube simulation package (IceSim).

·   Software coordinator Alex Olivas

·   The Maryland group maintains a computing cluster of about 750 cpu cores and 24 GPU boards (GTX980) with online disk storage of more then 350TB dedicated to IceCube activities. A minimum of 350 cpu cores and all GPUs are reserved for dedicated simulation production under the coordination of the IceCube simulation production manager.


Institutional (UMD) resource contribution to Computing:

The maintenance and operation of the computing cluster includes:

1.  High quality Computing Space, cooling and power (provided by UMD)

2.  Networking and high speed connectivity to the Internet (provided UMD)

3.  System administration (.5 FTE sys-admin) (partial support by UMD)

4.  Hardware maintenance on a 5-year replacement cycle of $40k/year (partial support by UMD).

5.  GPU cluster purchased by UMD ($80k) and maintained with help from UMD

1. & 2. Computing Space, cooling and power & Networking and high speed connectivity to the Internet

The University of Maryland provides high quality space, cooling and power. The IceCube group is provided essentially unlimited space in a modern HPC computing facility for research computing on campus. The facility is monitored 24/7 by provided technicians and we have 24/7 secure access. The current system occupies 10 rack spaces with additional space set aside for possible expansion. Maryland is a major hub for the Internet-2 backbone in the northeast US. The University provides a 10 Gb/s fiber connection directly from the interenet-2 backbone into our cluster in the research computing facility. In addition, the university provides a dedicated fiber between the research computing facility and our research group in the physics building.

3., 4. & 5. System administration & Hardware maintenance on a 5-year replacement cycle

The University of Maryland provides $40k per year in funding to be used towards the total. The system administration is approximately .5 FTE and includes administration for the computing cluster as well as about 1 dozen workstations used by the PA group. The hardware maintenance for the compute cluster is $40k per year.


Computing Resources

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube 350 guaranteed of 750 total 24 (GTX980) 350 guaranteed of 750 total 48 (GTX980)*
PINGU        
Gen2        

* This upgrade to 48 boards is a tentative plan for next year if funds available.

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