IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
Scope of Work

University of Delaware

Last updated: August 29, 2014

IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

Scope of Work

University of Delaware

Tom Gaisser

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads): 7 ( 5 2 2)

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	GAISSER, TOM	Administration	Executive Com.; Institutional lead	Inst. In-Kind	0.20					0.20
	GAISSER, TOM Total				0.20					0.20
	SECKEL, DAVID	TFT Coordination	TFT Board member	Inst. In-Kind				0.10		0.10
		Data Acquisition	DAQ Monitoring	Inst. In-Kind		0.05				0.05
	SECKEL, DAVID Total					0.05		0.10		0.15
	STANEV, TODOR	Administration	Pubcom member	Inst. In-Kind	0.10					0.10
	STANEV, TODOR Total				0.10					0.10
	EVENSON, PAUL	Administration	Managing solar and heliospheric aspects of IceTop	Inst. In-Kind	0.05					0.05
	EVENSON, PAUL Total				0.05					0.05
SC	TILAV, SERAP	IceTop Operations	Coordinate IceTop Operations	NSF M&O Core		1.00				1.00
	TILAV, SERAP Total					1.00				1.00
PO	GONZALEZ, JAVIER	Simulation Programs	Simulations	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
		Reconstruction / Analysis Tools	Event reconstruction	Base Grants					0.25	0.25
		Physics filters	Physics filters	Base Grants				0.10		0.10
	GONZALEZ, JAVIER Total							0.10	0.35	0.45
	DEMBINSKI, HANS	Reconstruction / Analysis Tools	Event reconstruction	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
		Simulation Programs	Simulations	Base Grants					0.25	0.25
	Dembinski, Hans Total								0.35	0.35
GR	PANDYA, HERSHAL	Simulation Programs	sim-services	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
	KOIRALA, RAMESH	Simulation Programs	sim-services	Base Grants					0.10	0.10
	UD GR Total								0.20	0.20
UD Total					0.35	1.05		0.20	0.90	2.50

Faculty:

Tom Gaisser – Executive Committee, cosmic rays and neutrinos
Paul Evenson – Managing Solar and heliospheric aspects of IceTop
David Seckel – TFT board / DAQ monitoring, radio R&D
Todor Stanev – Atmospheric muons/neutrinos; Pubcom member

Scientist:

Serap Tilav - IceTop data quality; IceTop operations;
Analysis: Primary spectrum and composition
Post-docs:
Javier Gonzalez – Inclined shower reconstruction and simulation code; IceTop event viewer. In charge of IceTop simulations across the Collaboration and reporting to Simulation Coordination Panel; IceTop simulation code maintenance; online IceTop data filtering code maintenance.
Analysis topics: Cosmic ray physics with IceCube
Hans Dembinski – Event reconstruction and simulations

Ph.D. Students:

Ramesh Koirala – Periodic data monitoring, IceTop reconstruction tools, data verification.
Analysis: IceTop cosmic ray spectrum with the constant intensity cut method;
Hershal Pandya – Environmental correction in simulation, simulation verification.
Analysis: Gamma ray sources with IceCube;

Computing cluster:

UD is part of the IceCube system of distributed computing. The IceCube cluster at UD is used primarily for simulation production of air showers and coincident events seen by both the surface and in-ice components of IceCube. In 2008 the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware provided funds for a substantial upgrade of our computer cluster, and the cluster was upgraded again in 2009. After the latest upgrade, and the merging of other IceTop computing resources that were managed separately, the IceTop portion of the Bartol-UD cluster now consists of 232 computing cores (29 nodes), 56 with 2GB/core, 144 with 3GB/core and 32 with 4GB/core. There is a total of 86TB of disk space divided across 4 disk servers. The upgrades amounted to about $40,000 of hardware expenses. In addition, at least 10% of the time of IT specialist Daniel De Marco is attributable to IceCube.

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