1. IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)
  1. RWTH Aachen
    1. Christopher Wiebusch
    2. Scope of Work
    3. Faculty:
    4. Scientists and Post Docs:
    5. Ph.D. Students:
    6. Diploma/Master Students
    7. Computing Resources

Last updated: September 16, 2016


IceCube Institutional Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU)

 

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RWTH Aachen


Christopher Wiebusch

Ph.D Scientists (Faculty Scientist/Post Doc Grads Master): 2 (1 1 10 6)


Scope of Work

 

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
       
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
KE WIEBUSCH, CHRISTOPHER Administration ExecCom member
0.20
         
0.20
    Administration PubCom member
0.10
         
0.10
  WIEBUSCH, CHRISTOPHER Total  
0.30
         
0.30
  AUFFENBERG, JAN Surface Detectors IceAct coordination/Analysis  
0.30
       
0.30
    Engineering and R&D Support Surface detectors Performance & Simulation (Gen-2)
0.10
         
0.10
  AUFFENBERG, JAN Total
0.10
0.30
       
0.40
GR HAACK, CHRISTIAN Simulation Software Maintenance / Addition of seasons weights to nuflux module        
0.05
 
0.05
    Simulation Production Simulation production on cluster/grid for consistent MC spanning IC-59-IC-86-5      
0.30
   
0.30
    Reconstruction Energy reco with machine learning        
0.10
 
0.10
    Reconstruction Diffuse fit tool        
0.20
 
0.20
  LEIF, RäDEL Surface Detectors IceAct data stream/commissioning  
0.10
       
0.10
    Online Filter (Pnf) L3 IC86-x muon data stream, Scripts & Monitoring      
0.10
   
0.10
  SCHOENEN, SEBASTIAN Simulation Software
KDE Tools KDE and multi-llh
     
0.10
   
0.10
    Reconstruction
Diffuse fit tool
       
0.10
 
0.10
  REIMAN, RENE Simulation Production AC-RZ GPU/CPU cluster maintenance. iceprod and mass production    
0.30
     
0.30
    Reconstruction Point-source search methods/comparison of diffuse and ps samples        
0.20
 
0.20
  RONGEN, MARTIN Ice Properties Hole Ice calibration          
0.20
0.20
    Detector Calibration DOM Calibration and R&D          
0.10
0.10
    Surface Detectors IceAct calibration/maintenance          
0.20
0.20
    Detector Monitoring Detector monitoring shifts  
0.05
       
0.05
  LEUERMANN, MARTIN Reconstruction PegLeg Reconstruction        
0.30
 
0.30
    Reconstruction OscFit extension        
0.20
 
0.20
  SCHUMACHER, LISA   TBD (DeepLearning)            
0.00
  GR Detector Monitoring    
0.12
       
0.12
  GR Total       
0.27
0.30
0.50
1.15
0.50
2.72
   RWTH Total:    
0.40
0.57
0.30
0.50
1.15
0.50
3.42
 

 

Diplom/Master Students M&O Contribution:

Labor Cat.
Names
WBS L3
Tasks
WBS 2.1
WBS 2.2
WBS 2.3
WBS 2.4
WBS 2.5
WBS 2.6
Grand Total
       
Program Coordination
Detector Maintenance & Operations
Computing & Data Management
Data Processing & Simulation
Software
Calibration
 
Master Aatif Waza Surface Detectors IceAct Simulation  
0.05
         
  Stefan Wickmann Engineering and R&D Support Development acoustic positioning sensors (Gen2)
0.10
           
  Theo Glauch Reconstruction Multipole Korrelation analysis methods      
0.05
     
  Merlin Schaufel Engineering and R&D Support IceAct DAQ  
0.05
         
  Erik Vogel Reconstruction Calculation of resolution estimators for PS analysis      
0.1
     
  Jöran Stettner Reconstruction DM profile for diffuse fit        
0.05
   
Diploma/Master Students Total   
0.10
0.10
 
0.15
0.05
 
0.40
 

Note: Gen-2 contributions not relevant for IceCube M&O are highlighted in blue (Total: 0.20 FTE)

 


Faculty:

Christopher Wiebusch


Scientists and Post Docs:

Jan Auffenberg - High energy surface extension, (IceVeto, IceAct).


Ph.D. Students:

Marius Wallraff  Thesis topic: Sterile neutrinos

Markus Vehring  Thesis topic: Atm. Neutrino oscillations

Larissa Paul  Thesis topic RASTA

Leif Rädel  Thesis topic: Multi year diffuse muon neutrino analysis

Sebastian Schoenen Mag.Monopole Thesis topic: Multi year muon neutrino diffuse analysis

Rene Reimann Multipole analysis, Thesis topic : Cosmic neutrino sources

Martin Leuermann Ang.Korrelation, Thesis topic: Neutrino mass hierarchy analysis with DeepCore

Martin Rongen   IceCube Gen2 R&D, Thesis Topic: Gen 2 DOMs, Calibration

Christian Haack IceCube-gen2. Thesis Topic: Cosmic neutrino sources, Galactic Plane

Lisa Schumacher t.b.d. and angular correlation analysis



Diploma/Master Students

Stefan Wickmann  Acoustic transducers for Gen 2 doms

Jöran Stettner    Large scale diffuse fit for dark matter

Eric Vogel    Point source fits

Theo Glauch    Angular correlation analysis

Merlin Schaufel

Aatif Waza    IceAct Simulation

 

 



Computing Resources
 

2016
2017
  CPU Cores GPU Cards CPU Cores GPU Cards
IceCube ~27700 (shared resources, guaranteed 0.3% usage) 58 (shared resources, 50% usage) ~27700 (shared resources) 58 (shared resources)
PINGU --- --- --- ---
Gen2 Same as for IceCube Same as for IceCube Same as for IceCube Same as for IceCube  

GPU Cards: Bullx R425-E2, 2 x NVIDIA Quadro 6000, CPU: X5650 @ 2.67 GHz
CPU Cores: X5675 @ 3.0GHz and X7550 @ 2.0GHz
 

New GPU cluster under construction, t.b.d., At least additional 8 GPU for the collabotation

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