IceCube Simulation Workshop

Name: IceCube Simulation Workshop
Start: 2020-10-19T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-10-23T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

19 Oct 2020, 08:00 → 23 Oct 2020, 13:00 US/Central

Virtual

Alex Olivas (University of Maryland), Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Kevin Meagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Description

Registration

Participants

Monday 19 October
- The IceCube Simulation Chain: Overview of projects/modules
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 1
    
    The IceCube Simulation Chain
    
    Speaker: Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    IceCube Simulation.pdf
  - 2
    
    MuonGun
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    MuonGun.pdf
  - 3
    
    PROPOSAL
    
    Speaker: Jan Soedingrekso (Universität Dortmund)
    
    PROPOSAL_present_2020_10_19.pdf
  - 4
    
    CMC
    
    Speaker: Brian Clark (Michigan State University)
    
    2020.10.19_cmc_overview.pdf
  - 5
    
    PPC
    
    Speaker: Mr Dmitry Chirkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    ppc.pdf
  - 6
    
    ClSim
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    CLSim.pdf
- 10:00
  
  Coffee Break
- The IceCube Simulation Chain: Overview of projects/modules
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 7
    
    Polyplopia
    
    Speaker: Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Polyplopia.pdf
  - 8
    
    Vuvuzela
    
    Speaker: Michael Larson (University of Maryland)
    
    201019_vuvuzela.pdf
  - 9
    
    DOMLauncher
    
    Speaker: Matti Jansson (Stockholm University)
  - 10
    
    TopSimulator/g4-tankresponse
    
    Speaker: Matthias Plum (Marquette University)
    
    topsimulator-matthias_plum.pdf
- The IceCube Simulation Chain: Computing Challenges
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 11
    
    Software Profiling
    
    GPU efficiency, Memory requirements, data transfer.
    
    Speaker: David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    sim workshop 2020 - hardware resources.pdf
  - 12
    
    Discussion
- 12:15
  
  Coffee Break/Lunch (optional)
Tuesday 20 October
- The IceCube Simulation Chain
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 13
    
    LeptonInjector/LeptonWeighter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)
    
    LeptonInjectorWeighter.pdf
  - 14
    
    Trigger-Sim
    
    Speaker: Alex Olivas (University of Maryland)
  - 15
    
    SnowStorm
    
    Speaker: Erik Ganster (RWTH Aachen University)
    
    SimulationWorkshop_SnowstormOverview.pdf
- 08:55
  
  Coffee Break
- CORSIKA/MuonGun: DYNSTACK CORSIKA, CORSIKA8, IT simulations
  
  Background CR showers, IT simulation, MuonGun
  - 16
    
    DYNSTACK CORSIKA update
    
    Speaker: Kevin Meagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Meagher_2020Oct_SimWorkshop_TriggeredCorsika.pdf
  - 17
    
    CORSIKA8 Design and status
    
    Speaker: Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
    
    IceCube_Workshop_2020.pdf
  - 18
    
    CORSIKA biasing/importance sampling
- CORSIKA/MuonGun
  
  Background CR showers, IT simulation, MuonGun
  - 19
    
    IceTop applications
- Code Optimizations
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 20
    
    DOM Oversizing
  - 21
    
    Memory optimizations
    
    Dataclasses: MCTree, Photons, PEs
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
Wednesday 21 October
- Code Optimizations: Parallelization
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 22
    
    I3MPI
    
    Speaker: Nathan Whitehorn (University of California, Los Angeles)
    
    parallel.pdf
  - 23
    
    Module-level parallelism vs. event-level parallelism
    
    Speaker: Nathan Whitehorn (University of California, Los Angeles)
- 10:00
  
  Coffee Break
- Hitspooling DAQ simulation
  
  Discussion on using actual DAQ trigger on simulation
  - 24
    
    Hitspooling format and DAQ specifications
    
    Speaker: Tim Bendfelt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Hitspool Data.pdf
Thursday 22 October
- Strike Team: Address, close simulation related tickets
  
  Address, close tickets
  
  Convener: Alex Olivas (University of Maryland)
- 10:00
  
  Coffee Break
- Code Optimizations: Resource prediction and other optimizations
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 25
    
    Resource prediction studies
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    Allocation learning.pdf
Friday 23 October
- Upgrade/GEN2 Simulation: Simulation readiness discussion
  - 26
    
    Upgrade Sim
    
    Speaker: Thomas Stuttard (Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen)
    
    UpgradeSim_2020IceCubeSimWorkshop_TomStuttard.pdf
- 10:00
  
  Coffee Break
- Open: Discussion/Coding session