1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Students:
    6. Computing Resources:

Last updated: March 9, 2012

 


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


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
Grand Total

         
Program Management
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Triggering & Filtering
Data Quality, Reconstruction & Simulation Tools
 		  

KE COWEN, DOUG Administration ExecCom member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
       
0.20

      Education & Outreach Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05

      Physics Filters Tau WG Chair Inst. In-Kind      
0.25
 
0.25

    COWEN, DOUG Total        
0.25
   
0.25
 
0.50

    DEYOUNG, TYCE Education & Outreach Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05

      Physics Filters Deep Core WG - Co Chair Inst. In-Kind      
0.25
 
0.25

    DEYOUNG, TYCE Total        
0.05
   
0.25
 
0.30

PO KOSKINEN, JASON Simulation Production Simulation Production Base Grants    
0.08
   
0.08
 		  

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Coordinate reconstruction scripts for production Base Grants        
0.00
0.00

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools Integrating the GENIE Monte Carlo software into IceCube software Base Grants        
0.10
0.10

        Computing Resources Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing NSF M&O Core    
0.13
   
0.13
 		  

    KOSKINEN, JASON Total            
0.21
 
0.10
0.31

  CLARK,
KEN 		Computing Resources Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing NSF M&O Core    
0.13
   
0.13

    Simulation Production Simulation Production Base Grants    
0.08
   
0.08

    Detector Monitoring Monitoring Shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03

  CLARK, KEN Total  
0.03
0.21
   
0.24

GR BELL, MICHAEL Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03

  BELL, MICHAEL Total      
0.03
     
0.03

  DUNKMAN, MATT Reconstruction/ Analysis tools develop starting track reconstruction - hybrid reco Base Grants        
0.50
0.50

    Physics Filters develop and verify DeepCore filters Base Grants      
0.00
 
0.00

    DUNKMAN, MATT Total              
0.00
0.50
0.50

PSU Total          
0.30
0.06
0.42
0.50
0.60
1.88

 
 

Summary:

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


Faculty:

Doug Cowen (L,+) - ExecComm member, Tau WG leader, outreach, 100% IceCube

Peter Mészáros - theory, 10% IceCube

Tyce DeYoung – DeepCore WG Co-Chair, DeepCore filters, outreach, 50% IceCube


Scientists and Post Docs:

Jason Koskinen – Integrating GENIE MC software into IceCube software, transition of responsibility for simulation production and distributed computing to Ken Clark over the course of the year, 100% IceCube

        Reconstruction modules: DeepCoreVeto  

Ken Clark – (arrived on March 5, 2012) Jason Koskinen's responsibility for simprod, distributed computing, and monitoring will be transferred to Ken


Students:

Matt Dunkman – Starting track reconstruction development, 80% IceCube (half time TA fall 2011, full time RA spring and summer 2012)

        Reconstruction modules: HybridReco

Michael Bell   – monitoring, 25% IceCube (full-time TA fall and spring, 100% IceCube for summer 2012)


Computing Resources:

The Penn State IceCube group has access to several large computing clusters maintained and administered by the Penn State High Performance Computing group, comprising a total of approximately 8,000 computing cores. Since October 2011, the Penn State group has had priority access to 230 cores. Our historical average utilization for the past year has been around 120% of the cores to which we have priority access, with peak usage levels around 600%.

With these clusters Penn State has contributed substantially to simulation production, including the entire collaboration-wide simulation of low energy neutrinos with GENIE, all PINGU simulations, and around 9% of all simprod jobs run collaboration-wide. Substantial amounts of reconstruction development work have also been conducted using these resources.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the period beginning April 1, 201 2 .

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