IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Uderstanding (MOU)

Penn State computing resources and management have undergone significant changes over the past year or so, many of which have not been favorable to the high performance computing needs of IceCube. However, the situation is definitely improving, and after waiting quite a while for the dust to settle, we will be purchasing shares in a CPU-intensive cluster by early 2016 that will enable Penn State to once again contribute substantively to simulation production. Also, with D. Cowen recently appointed to a small university-wide “executive committee” (reporting directly to the Provost) charged with formulating university policy for research computing, the prospects for further improvements are good. This past year, Cowen was a co-PI on a computing-centric MRI proposal to NSF along with colleagues in astronomy, engineering and statistics. This MRI allocated considerable resources to IceCube computing. Although it reviewed well, it was not funded, but we have been encouraged to re-apply and are planning to do so.

Our overarching goal is to “punch above our weight” in simulation production, including simulation of low energy neutrinos with GENIE, PINGU simulations and reconstructions, and simprod jobs run collaboration-wide. Substantial amounts of reconstruction development work will also been conducted using these resources.

Note: The activities and staffing levels in this MoU are appropriate for the period beginning October 1, 2015.

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	Compuing & 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
SC	ANDERSON, TYLER	Data Acquisition	DAQ Firmware Development	NSF M&O Core		0.23				0.23
	ANDERSON, TYLER Total					0.23				0.23
PO	ARLEN, TIM	Simulation Production	Simulation Production	Base Grants			0.08			0.08
		Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Develop analysis tools for systematics study	Base Grants					0.20	0.20
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
		Computing Resources	Coordination and Support Grid distributed computing	NSF M&O Core			0.25			0.25
	ARLEN, TIM Total					0.03	0.33		0.20	0.56
	KEIVANI, AZADEH	Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Integrate IceCube into AMON	Inst. In-Kind					0.25	0.25
	KEIVANI, AZADEH Total								0.25	0.25
GR	HUANG, FEIFEI	TFT Coordination	Study PINGU/HEX hardware requirements using IceCube data & simulation	Inst. In-Kind				0.47		0.47
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Base Grants		0.03				0.03
	HUANG, FEIFEI Total					0.03		0.47		0.50
	LANFRANCHI, JUSTIN	Reconstruction/ Analysis tools	Low energy event reconstruction quality	Inst. In-Kind					0.47	0.47
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Inst. In-Kind		0.03				0.03
	LANFRANCHI, JUSTIN Total					0.03			0.47	0.50
	PANKOVA, DARIA	Data Acquisition	DAQ electronics hardware and firmware	Inst. In-Kind		0.47				0.47
		Detector Monitoring	Monitoring Shifts	Inst. In-Kind		0.03				0.03
	PANKOVA, DARIA Total					0.50				0.50
PSU Total					0.40	0.82	0.33	0.47	0.92	2.94