IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

LBNL is involved in many aspects of IceCube service. We built the DOM main boards, and many of our service tasks are related to that, including maintenance of DAQ hardware (contributing to firmware and online software updates). PI Klein is also on the writing committee for the new joint IceCube U. S. NSF proposal.

We are also heavily involved in software work National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC) at LBNL’s National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC). NERSC is responsible for storing a copy of all of IceCube’s raw data on their HPSS storage system. Currently, NERSC is storing over 2 Petabytes of data for IceCube. This is a lot of data, and we have been heavily involved in developing the data transfer procedures.

We also have a FY ‘18 allocation of 1,250,000 CPU hours (equivalent to 114 cores running 24/7/365) this year on NERSC supercomputer systems. IceCube computing has recently gotten IceProd working at NERSC, and used this time for production in March. Over the next few months, we need to develop a sustainable model for IceCube CPU usage at NERSC.

Our analysis efforts are focused in several areas.

Sally Robertson is working on a multi-year measurement of muon-neutrino absorption in the Earth.

New graduate student Yang Lyu is starting to work on a study of high-energy down-going neutrinos. He plans to develop algorithms to select single muon events (developed for the forward muon search) to reject muon bundle background. In parallel track, we are working with a group of computer scientists (using their own funding) to make a similar selection using machine learning methods. So far, this is just using simulation, but early efforts are promising.

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	KLEIN, SPENCER	Administration	Supervise LBNL effort	NSF M&O Core	0.05						0.05
		Computing & Data Management	Oversee raw data storage at LBNL	Institutional In-Kind			0.08				0.08
		Administration	PINGU Coordination Committee	Institutional In-Kind	0.03						0.03
		Administration	Gen2 HEA/Surface working group	Institutional In-Kind	0.05						0.05
	KLEIN, SPENCER Total				0.13		0.08				0.21
PO	ROBERTSON, SALLY	Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grant		0.09					0.09
	ROBERTSON, SALLY Total					0.09					0.09
EN	STEZELBERGER, THORSTEN	Data Acquisition	Maintain DAQ Hardware	NSF M&O Core		0.15					0.15
	STEZELBERGER, THORSTEN Total					0.15					0.15
GS	LYU,YANG	Reconstruction	Starting event energy, muon bundles	Institutional In-Kind					0.10		0.10
	LYU, YANG Total								0.00		0.10
IT	All, LBNL IT	Central Computing Resources	NERSC Data Archiving, Distributed Computing and Labor	Institutional In-Kind			1.00				1.00
	LBNL IT Total						1.00				1.00
	LBNL Total				0.13	0.24	1.08		0.00		1.45