1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Scientists and Post Docs:
    4. Grad Students:
    5. UMD General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
    6. Institutional (UMD) resource contribution to Computing:

     Last updated: February 24, 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 SULIVAN, GREG Administration Spokesperson NSF M&O Core
0.30
               
0.30

    Administration ExecCom member Inst. In-Kind
0.20
               
0.20

    SULIVAN, GREG Total      
0.50
             
0.50

  HOFFMAN, KARA Engineering and R&D Support Detector R&D Inst. In-Kind
0.20
               
0.20

    HOFFMAN, KARA Total        
0.20
             
0.20

    UMD KE Education & Outreach E&O Inst. In-Kind
0.10
               
0.10

    UMD KE Total        
0.10
               
0.10

SC BLAUFUSS, ERIK
 

   

 Online Filter (PnF) Maintain PnF Software and Online Filters NSF M&O Core    
0.20
           
0.20

      Physics Filters GRB WG Chair Base Grants            
0.25
   
0.25

      TFT Coordination filter requests, bandwidth, TFT Board Member NSF M&O Core            
0.30
   
0.30

    BLAUFUSS, ERIK Total            
0.20
   
0.55
   
0.75

PO OLIVAS, ALEX Simulation Programs Simulation Software Programs coordinator NSF M&O Core                
0.40
0.40

    OLIVAS, ALEX Total                  
0.40
0.40

    UMD PO Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants    
0.03
           
0.03

    UMD PO Total            
0.03
         
0.03

  WISSING, HENRIKE Administration PubComm member Base Grants 0.10              
0.10

    Physics Filters EHE & Brights-WG co-chair Base Grants       0.25  
0.25

    Reconstruction/ Analysis tools develop & test reconstruction Base Grants                
0.125
0.13

      Simulation Programs Maintain Detector Simulation (IceSim) Base Grants                
0.125
0.13

    WISSING, HENRIKE Total         0.10         0.25
0.25
0.60

GR CHRISTY, BRIAN Simulation Production Simulation Production coordination Base Grants        
0.25
       
0.25

    CHRISTY, BRIAN Total                
0.25
       
0.25

    MEAGHER, KEVIN Core Software Core Software Base Grants        
0.50
       
0.50

    MEAGHER, KEVIN Total                
0.50
       
0.50

    REDL, PETER

   

 Online Filter (PnF) Online Filter Testing Base Grants    
0.25
           
0.25

      Reco/Analysis tools Reco./ Analysis tools Base Grants                
0.25
0.25

      Simulation Programs Maintain Detector Simulation (IceSim) Base Grants                
0.25
0.25

    REDL, PETER Total            
0.25
       
0.50
0.75

    HELLAUER, ROBERT Core Software Core Software Base Grants        
0.25
       
0.25

      TFT Coordination Datasets for filter testing & common MC datasets Base Grants            
0.20
   
0.20

    HELLAUER, ROBERT Total              
0.25
0.20
 
0.45

    UMD GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants    
0.06
           
0.06

    UMD GR Total            
0.06
     
0.06

UMD Total            
0.90
0.54
1.00
1.00
1.15
4.59

 

Faculty:

Greg Sullivan (L,+) – Spokesperson, Data Systems, ExecCom, ICB, Institution lead, Outreach

Kara Hoffman   – filter development, Radio R&D, Outreach

Jordan Goodman – Coordination with Milagro/HAWC, Outreach

Robert Ellsworth – Coordination with Milagro/HAWC, Mentoring students


Scientists and Post Docs:

Erik Blaufuss  – TFT board Member; Chair of GRB WG, PnF, IceTray, SVN repository, Operations Group

Alex Olivas – Software management

Henrike Wissing – EHE and Brights WG co-chair, PubComm member, atmospheric monitoring, reconstruction, simulation


Grad Students:

Phil Roth – filter verification, filter development

Kevin Meagher– Core software, Offline Processing development & testing, filter development

Brian Christy  – Filter development, Simulation production coordination

Peter Redl – simulation, reconstruction tools, filter development, online filter testing

Robert Hellauer – Core Software, Datasets for filter testing & common MC datasets

Mike Richman

 


UMD General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:

The Maryland Group’s major responsibilities and contributions towards maintenance and operations of the IceCube experiment include:

·   Primary institutional responsibility for the maintenance of the online PnF filter system.

·   Primary institutional responsibility for the maintenance of the IceTray analysis framework, SVN code repository and software package building.

·   Major responsibility for the maintenance of the IceCube simulation package (IceSim).

·   The Maryland group maintains a computing cluster of approximately 280 cpu cores and online disk storage of approximately 100TB dedicated to IceCube activities. A minimum of 140 cpu cores (50%) are reserved for dedicated simulation production under the coordination of the IceCube simulation production manager. There are also GRID resources on campus that we are investigating.


Institutional (UMD) resource contribution to Computing:

The maintenance and operation of the computing cluster includes:

1.  High quality Computing Space, cooling and power (provided by UMD)

2.  Networking and high speed connectivity to the Internet (provided UMD)

3.  System administration (.5 FTE sys-admin) (partial support by UMD)

4.  Hardware maintenance on a 5-year replacement cycle of $40k/year (partial support by UMD).

1. & 2. Computing Space, cooling and power & Networking and high speed connectivity to the Internet

The University of Maryland provides high quality space, cooling and power. The IceCube group is provided essentially unlimited space in a modern HPC computing facility for research computing on campus. The facility is monitored 24/7 by provided technicians and we have 24/7 secure access. The current system occupies 10 rack spaces with additional space set aside for possible expansion. Maryland is a major hub for the Internet-2 backbone in the northeast US. The University provides a 10 Gb/s fiber connection directly from the interenet-2 backbone into our cluster in the research computing facility. In addition, the university provides a dedicated fiber between the research computing facility and our research group in the physics building.

3. & 4. System administration & Hardware maintenance on a 5-year replacement cycle

The University of Maryland provides $45k per year in funding to be used towards the total. The system administration is approximately .5 FTE and includes administration for the computing cluster as well as about 1 dozen workstations used by the PA group. The hardware maintenance for the compute cluster is $40k per year.
 

 

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