1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
    2. Scope of Work
  1. University of Maryland
    1. Greg Sullivan
    2. Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 7 (3 4 4)
    3. Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Ph.D. Students:
    6. UMD General M&O (non-science) IceCube Responsibilities and Contributions:
    7. Institutional (UMD) resource contribution to Computing:

     Last updated: February 24, 2014


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)


Scope of Work

 

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University of Maryland


Greg Sullivan


Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 7 ( 3 4 4)

 

 

 

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 M&O/Upgrade planning Inst. In-Kind
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
    Administration Analysis Coordinator Base Grants 0.40        
0.40
    TFT Coordination filter requests, bandwidth, TFT Board Member Inst. In-Kind      
0.30
 
0.30
  BLAUFUSS, ERIK Total      0.40
0.20
 
0.30
 
0.90
  OLIVAS, ALEX Simulation Programs Simulation Software Programs coordinator Inst. In-Kind        
0.40
0.40
    Administration IceCube Weekly call coordination Inst. In-Kind  0.20        
0.20
    Detector M&O Support Detector M&O Inst. In-Kind  
0.40
     
0.40
  OLIVAS, ALEX Total    
0.20
0.40
   
0.40
1.00
 PO FELDE, JOHN Data Production Processing Implement near real time GRB analysis Base Grants      0.40    
0.40
  FELDE, JOHN Total          0.40    
0.40
  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 CHEUNG,
ELIM 		Simulation Production Simulation Production coordination Base Grants    
0.25
   
0.25
  CHRISTY, BRIAN Total        
0.25
   
0.25
  MAUNU,
RYAN 		Core Software Detector R&D Base Grants    
0.25
   
0.25
  MEAGHER, KEVIN Total        
0.25
   
0.25
  RICHMAN,
MIKE

 

Online Filter (PnF) Online Filter Testing Base Grants  
0.125
     
0.125
    Reco/Analysis tools Reco./ Analysis tools Base Grants        
0.125
0.125
    Simulation Programs Maintain Detector Simulation (IceSim) Base Grants        
0.125
0.125
  REDL, PETER Total      
0.125
   
0.25
0.375
  HELLAUER, ROBERT  Core Software Core Software Base Grants    
0.125
   
0.125
    TFT Coordination Datasets for filter testing & common MC datasets Base Grants      
0.10
 
0.10
  HELLAUER, ROBERT Total        
0.125
0.10
 
0.225
   UMD GR Detector Monitoring Monitoring shifts Base Grants  
0.06
     
0.06
  UMD GR Total      
0.06
     
0.06
UMD Total      
1.50
0.79
1.03
0.65
0.90
4.87
 

 


Faculty:

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

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

Jordan Goodman – Coordination with Milagro/HAWC, Outreach


Scientists and Post Docs:

Erik Blaufuss   – Analysis Coordinator, TFT board Member, PnF, IceTray, SVN repository, Operations Group

 Analysis topics: GRB

John Felde –  Online – near realtime GRB analysis

 Analysis topics: GRB, Neutrino Oscillations

Alex Olivas –   Tuesday Call co-convener , Software management, Simulation program coordinator

 Analysis topics:

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

 Analysis topics: EHE


Ph.D. Students:

Mike Richman –  filter verification, filter development

 Thesis/Analysis topics: GRB search with muons

Elim Cheung –  Offline Processing development & testing, Simulation

 Thesis/Analysis topics: Neutrino Oscillations

Ryan Maunu –  Filter development, Simulation production coordination

 Thesis/Analysis topics: GZK Neutrinos

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

 Thesis/Analysis topics: GRB search with all flavors


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 several hundred cpu cores and online disk storage of more then 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. The university just recently provided funding of $80k to enhance the cluster with a large number of GPU equipped units with a capability of approximately 25-30% of real time IceCube simulation.


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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