High Throughput Computing in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Friday, March 7, 2008
10 a.m. - Noon
1610 Engineering Hall
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a kilometer-scale detector currently under construction at the South Pole. When completed, the detector will consist of a minimum of 4200 optical modules deployed on 70 vertical strings buried 1450 to 2450 meters under the surface of the ice. IceCube simulation and analysis demand a lot of computation resources and a high degree of coordination. IceCube is a collaborative effort between multiple research institutions with a heterogeneous collection of computing resources that are difficult to integrate into a common grid environment. IceProd is an in-house software package written in Python/MySQL and used for cataloging, managing and monitoring of Monte Carlo production and processing of IceCube detector data after it arrives in the northern hemisphere. IceProd was designed to provide a direct interface between various grid tools and the IceCube software framework and to facilitate coordination of computing resources within the IceCube collaboration.
Speaker
Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez
Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez is a systems programmer for IceCube at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Juan Carlos specializes in the Monte Carlo simulation of the detector, including coordination of distributed computing across the IceCube collaboration for simulation production. Juan Carlos has a B.S. in physics from Boise State University where he worked on theoretical models for low dimensional electron-hole systems and rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. He then attended graduate school in computer science also at Boise State University where he researched quantum-dot cellular automata (QCDA).
Any questions may be directed to Hideko Mills or Steve Krogull.