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September 16, 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): 4 (2 2 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
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
 
         
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
   
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 Software
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 Software
Integration of GENIE for low energy systematics Inst. In-Kind        
0.20
 
0.20
 
   
Central Computing Resources
Simulation production site manager at MSU/Condor integration NSF M&O Core    
0.25
     
0.25
 
   
Offline Data Production
Low energy L3 maintainer Inst. In-Kind      
0.08
   
0.08
 
  HIGNIGHT, JOSHUA Total
 
     
0.25
0.16
0.20
 
0.61
 
  JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRÉ
Simulation Production
LowEn Production Reconstruction, IceSim vetting for LowEn Inst. In-Kind      
0.12
   
0.12
 
   
Reconstruction
Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore Inst. In-Kind        
0.08
 
0.08
 
DE ANDRÉ, JOAO PEDRO Total
     
0.12
0.08
 
0.20
 
GR NEER, GARRETT
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Inst. In-Kind  
0.03
       
0.03
 
  NEER, GARRETT Total      
0.03
       
0.03
 
GR RYSEWYK, DEVYN
Detector calibration
In-situ DOM sensitivity calibration/angular response from muon neutrinos Inst. In-Kind          
0.50
0.50
 
  RYSEWYK, DEVYN Total              
0.50
0.50
MSU Total      
0.35
0.03
0.25
0.28
0.38
0.50
1.79
 


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

Faculty:

Tyce DeYoung – Deputy Spokesperson, outreach, 100% IceCube

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, 60% IceCube (40% GENIE development)

  Analysis topics: atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters

João Pedro A. M. de André –

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

 Reconstruction modules: MultiNest, DirectReco

 Analysis topics: Tau neutrino appearance

Ph.D. Students:

Garrett Neer  Detector monitoring: shift

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

Devyn Rysewyck Reco/analysis tools: 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 500* 8* 500* 8*
PINGU        
Gen2        

*as simprod by policy does not carry out low energy signal production, the primary computational task for low energy physics, these resources will be available for IceCube multi-institutional computing but not necessarily under simprod
 
Computing Resources Typically Available
 

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

*actual usage data are not available due to lack of jobs sent to MSU for processing
 

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 15,600 computing cores, including 80 Tesla K20c and 200 Tesla K80 GPU cards. Of these, 728 cores 8 K80 GPUs are dedicated to IceCube. Actual availability will be very substantially higher for jobs with durations less than 4 hours, but cannot be accurately estimated until simprod begins sending processing jobs to MSU.

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

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