IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
Scope of Work

University of Delaware

Last updated: April 20, 2017

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

Scope of Work

University of Delaware

Tom Gaisser

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 6 (4 2 2)

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	GAISSER, TOM	Administration	Executive Com.; Institutional lead	Inst. In-Kind	0.20						0.20
	GAISSER, TOM Total				0.20						0.20
	SECKEL, DAVID	Online Filter (Pnf)	TFT Board	Inst. In-Kind		0.10					0.10
		Administration	Pubcom member	Inst. In-Kind	0.05						0.05
		Data Acquisition	DAQ Monitoring	Inst. In-Kind		0.05					0.05
	SECKEL, DAVID Total				0.05	0.15					0.20
	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	Surface Detectors	Coordinate IceTop Operations	NSF M&O Core		0.75					0.75
		Detector Monitoring	Data monitoring	Inst. In-Kind		0.10					0.10
	TILAV, SERAP Total					0.85					0.85
PO	GONZALEZ, JAVIER	Simulation Production	IceCube/IceTop simulation production	Base Grants				0.25			0.25
		Reconstruction	Software maintenance: Event reco and corsika reader	Base Grants					0.20		0.20
		Administration	ICC member	Base Grants	0.05
		Online Filter (Pnf)	IceTop Filter	Base Grants		0.10					0.10
		Online Filter (Pnf)	CR WG co-chair	Base Grants		0.25					0.25
	GONZALEZ, JAVIER Total				0.05	0.35		0.25	0.20		0.80
GR	PANDYA, HERSHAL	Simulation Software	sim-services	Base Grants					0.10		0.10
	KOIRALA, RAMESH	Online Filter (Pnf)	Two station trigger	Base Grants		0.10					0.10
	UD GR Total					0.10			0.10		0.20
UD Total					0.35	1.45		0.25	0.30		2.35

Faculty:

Tom Gaisser – Executive Committee, cosmic rays and neutrinos
Paul Evenson – Managing Solar and heliospheric aspects of IceTop
David Seckel – TFT board / DAQ monitoring, Scintillators, Gen2 R&D
Todor Stanev – Atmospheric muons/neutrinos

Scientist:

Serap Tilav - IceTop data quality; IceTop operations; scintillators
Analysis: Primary spectrum and composition
Post-docs:
Javier Gonzalez – Air shower reconstruction and simulation code. In charge of IceTop simulations across the Collaboration and reporting to Simulation Coordination Panel; IceTop simulation code maintenance; online IceTop data filtering code maintenance. Gen2 R&D
Analysis topics: Cosmic-ray physics with surface muons
Postdoc TBD – Event reconstruction and simulations; Event viewer software, member of IceCube software strike team
Analysis: Cosmic-ray physics with surface muons

Ph.D. Students:

Ramesh Koirala – Data monitoring shift, IceTop two-station trigger and filter verification.
Analysis: Spectrum in the knee region with small showers in IceTop
Hershal Pandya – Data monitoring shift; CORSIKA reader maintenance, simulation verification.
Analysis: Gamma ray and cosmic-ray composition 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 (CORSIKA) production of air showers and development of simulations of 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 has been upgraded from time-to-time since then. After the current upgrade, the IceCube portion of the Bartol-UD cluster now consists of 272 computing cores (28 nodes), 200 with 2GB/core, 40 with 3GB/core and 32 with 4GB/core. There is a total of 90TB of disk space divided across 3 disk servers. The UD share of the cost if upgrades amounted to about $40,000 in total.

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