Computing Resources:

May 4, 2018

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

Michigan State University

Tyce DeYoung

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 2 (2 0 3)

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

DeYOUNG, TYCE

Education & Outreach

Education & Outreach

Inst. In-Kind

0.05

0.05

Administration

Executive committee

Inst. In-Kind

0.05

0.05

DeYOUNG, TYCE Total

0.10

MAHN, KENDALL

Simulation Software

Integration/development of GENIE for low energy systematics

Inst. In-Kind

0.05

0.05

MAHN, KENDALL Total

0.05

TBD

Simulation Production

Simulation Production

Inst. In-Kind

Central Computing Resources

Simulation production site manager at MSU/Condor integration

NSF M&O Core

PO TBD Total

NEER, GARRETT

Detector calibration

In-situ DOM sensitivity calibration/angular response from muon neutrinos

Inst. In-Kind

0.25

0.25

Education & Outreach

IceCube Masterclass

Inst. In-Kind

0.05

NEER, GARRETT Total

0.05

0.25

0.30

RYSEWYK, DEVYN

Detector Monitoring

Monitoring Shifts

Inst. In-Kind

0.03

0.03

Education & Outreach

Education & Outreach, IceCube Masterclass

Inst. In-Kind

0.10

0.10

RYSEWYK, DEVYN Total

0.10

0.03

0.13

MICALLEF, JESSIE

Education & Outreach

IceCube Masterclass

Inst. In-Kind

0.05

MICALLEF, JESSIE Total

MSU Total

0.30

0.03

0.05

0.25

0.63

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

Faculty:

Tyce DeYoung – Exec. comm., outreach, 100% IceCube
Kendall Mahn – low energy systematics/GENIE, 5% IceCube (95% GENIE, T2K, DUNE)

Scientists and Post Docs:

PO TBD – simprod, distributed computing, other contributions TBD once candidate is identified

Ph.D. Students:

Garrett Neer Reco/analysis tools: DOM calibration using neutrino-induced muons. Education and outreach: IceCube Masterclass
Thesis/Analysis topics: dark matter search using LE and ME contained events
Devyn Rysewyck Detector monitoring: shift. Education and outreach: SP Experiment jury, Science Fest Q&A, IceCube Masterclass
Thesis/Analysis topics: Extended Galactic source search, IceACT R&D
Jessie Micallef currently TA, plan to join strike team once done with coursework
Education and outreach: IceCube Masterclass
Thesis/Analysis topics: Next-generation oscillation analysis

Computing Resources:
MSU Pledged Computing Resources

	2017
	CPU Cores	GPU Cards
IceCube	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

	2017
	CPU Cores	GPU Cards
IceCube	1000 (est.)	200 (est.)
PINGU
Gen2

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.

The average computational resources provided for common processing is roughly 500 CPUs and 150 GPU cards. Peak levels are approximately 3000 CPUs and 300 GPU.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the six-month period beginning Sept 1, 2017.

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