1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U
  1. Pennsylvania State University
    1. Doug Cowen
    2. nderstanding (MOU)
    3. Scope of Work
    4. Summary:
    5. Faculty:
    6. Scientists and Post Docs:
    7. Ph.D. Students:
    8. Computing Resources:

Last updated: October 2, 2013

 

Last updated: October 15, 2011


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of U

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Pennsylvania State University


Doug Cowen

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 5 (2 3 2)


nderstanding (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 
Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05
 
   
Engineering and R&D
PINGU Co-Lead Inst. In-Kind
0.35
 
       
0.35
 
  COWEN, DOUG Total
 
 
0.40
       
0.40
 
  DEYOUNG, TYCE
Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach Inst. In-Kind
0.05
       
0.05
 
   
Physics Filters
Oscillations WG - Co Chair Inst. In-Kind      
0.15
 
0.15
 
   
Administration
Deputy Spokesperson Inst. In-Kind
0.20
       
0.20
 
  DEYOUNG, TYCE Total
 
 
0.25
   
0.15
 
040
 
PO ARLEN, TIM
Simulation Production
Simulation Production Base Grants    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Develop analysis tools for systematics study Base Grants        
0.10
0.10
 
   
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03
 
  ARLEN, TIM Total
 
   
0.03
0.08
 
0.10
0.21
 
  JOAO PEDRO DE ANDRES
Computing Resources
Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing NSF M&O Core    
0.25
   
0.25
 
   
Simulation Production
Simulation Production, IceSim vetting for LowEn Base Grants    
0.08
   
0.08
 
   
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Low energy reconstruction techniques for DeepCore Base Grants        
0.10
0.10
 
DE ANDRES, JOAO PEDRO Total
   
0.33
 
0.10
0.43
 
  TESIC, GORDANA
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
Integrate IceCube into AMON Inst. In-Kind        
0.50
0.50
 
TESIC, GORDANA Total          
0.50
0.50
 
GR DUNKMAN, MATT
Reconstruction/ Analysis tools
develop starting track reconstruction - hybrid reco Base Grants        
0.47
0.47
 
   
Detector Monitoring
Monitoring Shifts Base Grants  
0.03
     
0.03
 
  DUNKMAN, MATT Total      
0.03
   
0.47
0.50
PSU Total      
0.65
0.06
0.42
0.15
1.17
2.45
 

 


 
 


Summary:

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


Faculty:

Doug Cowen (L,+) - PINGU co-lead, outreach, 100% IceCube

Tyce DeYoung – Deputy Spokesperson, Oscillations WG Co-Chair, outreach, 50% IceCube


Scientists and Post Docs:

Tim Arlen –   simprod, PINGU systematics studies, monitoring, 100% IceCube

  Analysis topics: Tau neutrino appearance

João Pedro de Andres–

 simprod, distributed computing, Low-En triggering and filtering, Low-En reconstruction methods, 100% IceCube

 Reconstruction modules: MultiNest

 Analysis topics: Neutrino mass hierarchy

Gordana Tesic –  Integrating IceCube into AMON, 50% IceCube (on internal PSU funds, not PSU base grant)

 Analysis topics: n/a


Ph.D. Students:

Matt Dunkman –  Starting track reconstruction development, 100% IceCube

 Reconstruction modules: HybridReco

  Thesis/Analysis topics: Oscillations

Feifei Huang -  (still taking classes)

 Thesis/Analysis topics:  n/a


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, including several GPUs. Since September 2012, the Penn State group has had priority access to 260 cores. Our historical average utilization 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 10% 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 October 1, 2013.  

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