Valid from May 1, 2017
IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
Scope Of Work
University of Alberta
Darren Grant Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads) : 5 ( 3 2 3) |
Labor Cat.
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Names
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WBS L3
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Tasks
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WBS 2.1
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WBS 2.2
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WBS 2.3
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WBS 2.4
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WBS 2.5
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WBS 2.6
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Grand Total
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Program Coordination
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Detector Maintenance & Operations
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Computing & Data Management
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Data Processing & Simulation
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Software
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Calibration
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KE
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GRANT, DARREN
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Collaboration Spokesperson
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x.xx
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x.xx
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GRANT, DARREN Total
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x.xx
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x.xx
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KOPPER, CLAUDIO
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Administration
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Member of ICC
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0.05
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0.05
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Reconstruction
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Icetray framework maintenance
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0.05
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0.05
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Reconstruction
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Maintenance of clsim direct photon propagation tool
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0.10
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0.10
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Simulation Production
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GPU computing resources
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0.10
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0.10
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Online Filter (Pnf)
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Diffuse WG co-chair
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0.25
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0.25
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Engineering and R&D support
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Lead in-ice high-energy extension
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0.15
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0.15
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Offline Data Production
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Offline Processing Support / pass2
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0.10
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0.10
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KOPPER, CLAUDIO Total
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0.20
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0.25
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0.20
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0.15
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0.80
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MOORE, ROGER
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Detector Calibration
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DOM efficiency with cosmic muons
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0.10
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0.10
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MOORE, ROGER Total
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0.10
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0.10
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PO
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WEAVE, CHRIS
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Simulation Production
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High energy event generator (leptoninjector), PMT simulation, atmospheric flux library
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0.10
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0.10
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Offline Data Production
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Offline Processing Support / pass2
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0.10
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0.10
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Reconstruction
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“Shield” IceTop Veto module maintenance
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0.05
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0.05
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Reconstruction
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Simulation and core software support
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0.15
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0.15
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YANEZ, JUAN PABLO
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Online Filter (Pnf)
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LE WG co-chair
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0.25
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0.25
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ALBERTA, PO Total
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0.25
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0.25
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0.15
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0.65
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GR
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Nowicki, Sarah
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Reconstruction
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Direct Reconstruction Tool Development
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0.50
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0.50
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Sanchez Herrera, Sebastian
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Detector Calibration
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DOM efficiency with cosmic muons
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0.35
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0.35
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Distributed Computing Resources
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Grid Operations Team
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0.20
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0.20
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Reconstruction (?)
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PYTHIA event generator implementation and maintenance
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0.15
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0.15
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ALBERTA GR Total
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0.50
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0.35
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0.85
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ALBERTA Total
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0.20
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0.50
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0.95
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0.30
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0.45
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2.40
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Master Students M&O Contribution:
Labor Cat.
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Names
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WBS L3
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Tasks
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WBS 2.1
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WBS 2.2
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WBS 2.3
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WBS 2.4
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WBS 2.5
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WBS 2.6
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Grand Total
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Detector Maintenance & Operations
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Computing & Data Management
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Data Processing & Simulation
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Software
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Calibration
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| Master | Sarkar, Sourav (MSc) | Distributed Computing Resources | Grid Operations Team | 0.20
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0.20
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| Reconstruction (?) | PYTHIA event generator implementation and maintenance | 0.15
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0.15
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| Master Students Total | 0.20
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0.15
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0.35
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Full: Darren Grant, Claudio Kopper, Roger Moore
Associate (Gen2): Carsten Krauss, James Pinfold
Scientists and Post Docs:
Chris Weaver: high-energy event generator development (the “LeptonInjector” project); PMT simulation and development of an atmospheric flux library (“NewNuFlux”); Offline-processing/pass2 support and implementation; IceTop veto module maintenance (“Shield”); Software and core framework support (“IceTray”)
Juan Pablo Yanez (PhD): Convener low-energy working group
Ph.D. Students:
Tania Wood (PhD) [graduating fall 2017]: (Analysis focus – low-energy atmospheric neutrino flux)
Sarah Nowicki (PhD): Direct Reconstruction tool development (Analysis focus – neutrino oscillations with DeepCore)
Sebastian Sanchez Herrera (PhD): DOM efficiency with cosmic muons (Analysis focus: BSM studies)
Diploma/Master Students: 1 new MSc student started September 2017.
Undergraduates: 4 summer students.
Explanation:
A Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Subatomic Projects grant was just renewed for a 2-year period to support IceCube and IceCube-Gen2 activities at the University of Alberta and SNOLAB. The level of support is for 4 full-participant faculty (Clark, Grant, Kopper, Moore) and 2 associate faculty (Krauss, Pinfold). Also supported are Juan Pablo and Chris with plans for 3 additional PDFs, up to 4 PhD students (in this time) and 4 undergraduate students at the University of Alberta.
Description of service work and planned analysis:
The Alberta group is focused on analyses involving data from DeepCore, the development of the PINGU and high-energy IceCube-Gen2 project and precision studies of astrophysical flux properties such as the flavour composition. Tania’s PhD thesis is the measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux at energies to ~10 GeV with DeepCore. Sarah is currently working on a “direct reconstruction” tool development running photon propagation on the fly to build a reconstruction hypothesis and will complete her PhD thesis on a test of maximal theta_atm mixing with the 5-year DeepCore dataset. Sebastian studies absolute DOM efficiency with cosmic muons and will then move to his PhD topic of beyond-the-standard-model searches. The undergraduates this summer have worked on topics like trigger efficiency studies of PINGU and a direct fitter with simulation.
Computing Resources
Compute-Canada resources have been established as a primary simulation production resource for the IceCube collaboration. In 2017, a resource allocation of nearly 1700 CPU-years and 40 GPU-years from Compute-Canada was awarded to support IceCube activities. Claudio is in the process of constructing a high-performance GPU computing cluster based on TITAN X(p) GPUs with the first 48 GPUs online at this time and a total of 144 GPUs total online by June 2017. Our service activities are centred on the simulation production and reconstruction developments with these resources, and calibration efforts.
GPU
types:
* 14
GPU-years on Tesla K20m [Compute Canada]
* 22
GPU-years on Tesla M2070 [Compute Canada]
* 144
GPU-years on TITAN X(p) [Claudio Kopper]
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