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

Monday, 19 October
- 08:00 → 10:00
  The IceCube Simulation Chain: Overview of projects/modules
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 08:00
    
    The IceCube Simulation Chain 15m
    
    Speaker: Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    IceCube Simulation.pdf
  - 08:15
    
    MuonGun 15m
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    MuonGun.pdf
  - 08:50
    
    PROPOSAL 20m
    
    Speaker: Jan Soedingrekso (Universität Dortmund)
    
    PROPOSAL_present_2020_10_19.pdf
  - 09:10
    
    CMC 15m
    
    Speaker: Brian Clark (Michigan State University)
    
    2020.10.19_cmc_overview.pdf
  - 09:25
    
    PPC 15m
    
    Speaker: Mr Dmitry Chirkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    ppc.pdf
  - 09:40
    
    ClSim 20m
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    CLSim.pdf
- 10:00 → 10:10
  
  Coffee Break 10m
- 10:10 → 11:15
  The IceCube Simulation Chain: Overview of projects/modules
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 10:10
    
    Polyplopia 10m
    
    Speaker: Juan Carlos Diaz-Velez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Polyplopia.pdf
  - 10:20
    
    Vuvuzela 15m
    
    Speaker: Michael Larson (University of Maryland)
    
    201019_vuvuzela.pdf
  - 10:35
    
    DOMLauncher 15m
    
    Speaker: Matti Jansson (Stockholm University)
  - 11:00
    
    TopSimulator/g4-tankresponse 15m
    
    Speaker: Matthias Plum (Marquette University)
    
    topsimulator-matthias_plum.pdf
- 11:15 → 12:15
  The IceCube Simulation Chain: Computing Challenges
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 11:15
    
    Software Profiling 25m
    
    GPU efficiency, Memory requirements, data transfer.
    
    Speaker: David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    sim workshop 2020 - hardware resources.pdf
  - 11:40
    
    Discussion 25m
- 12:15 → 12:45
  
  Coffee Break/Lunch (optional) 30m
Tuesday, 20 October
- 08:00 → 08:55
  The IceCube Simulation Chain
  
  Overview of the IceCube Simulation chain and the various projects/modules involved.
  - 08:00
    
    LeptonInjector/LeptonWeighter 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)
    
    LeptonInjectorWeighter.pdf
  - 08:20
    
    Trigger-Sim 15m
    
    Speaker: Alex Olivas (University of Maryland)
  - 08:35
    
    SnowStorm 20m
    
    Speaker: Erik Ganster (RWTH Aachen University)
    
    SimulationWorkshop_SnowstormOverview.pdf
- 08:55 → 09:05
  
  Coffee Break 10m
- 09:05 → 10:15
  CORSIKA/MuonGun: DYNSTACK CORSIKA, CORSIKA8, IT simulations
  
  Background CR showers, IT simulation, MuonGun
  - 09:05
    
    DYNSTACK CORSIKA update 25m
    
    Speaker: Kevin Meagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Meagher_2020Oct_SimWorkshop_TriggeredCorsika.pdf
  - 09:30
    
    CORSIKA8 Design and status 20m
    
    Speaker: Antonio Augusto Alves Junior (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
    
    IceCube_Workshop_2020.pdf
  - 09:50
    
    CORSIKA biasing/importance sampling 25m
- 10:15 → 10:45
  CORSIKA/MuonGun
  
  Background CR showers, IT simulation, MuonGun
  - 10:15
    
    IceTop applications 25m
- 10:45 → 12:05
  Code Optimizations
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 10:45
    
    DOM Oversizing 45m
  - 11:30
    
    Memory optimizations 35m
    
    Dataclasses: MCTree, Photons, PEs
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
Wednesday, 21 October
- 08:00 → 10:00
  Code Optimizations: Parallelization
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 08:00
    
    I3MPI 20m
    
    Speaker: Nathan Whitehorn (University of California, Los Angeles)
    
    parallel.pdf
  - 08:20
    
    Module-level parallelism vs. event-level parallelism 20m
    
    Speaker: Nathan Whitehorn (University of California, Los Angeles)
- 10:00 → 10:10
  
  Coffee Break 10m
- 10:10 → 12:00
  Hitspooling DAQ simulation
  
  Discussion on using actual DAQ trigger on simulation
  - 10:10
    
    Hitspooling format and DAQ specifications 20m
    
    Speaker: Tim Bendfelt (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    
    Hitspool Data.pdf
Thursday, 22 October
- 08:00 → 10:00
  
  Strike Team: Address, close simulation related tickets
  
  Address, close tickets
  
  Convener: Alex Olivas (University of Maryland)
- 10:00 → 10:10
  
  Coffee Break 10m
- 10:10 → 12:00
  Code Optimizations: Resource prediction and other optimizations
  
  Memory, CPU profiling.
  DOM oversizing in PPC/ClSim
  Resource prediction
  Memory, runtime, etc.
  - 10:10
    
    Resource prediction studies 20m
    
    Speaker: Jakob van Santen (DESY Zeuthen)
    
    Allocation learning.pdf
Friday, 23 October
- 08:00 → 10:00
  Upgrade/GEN2 Simulation: Simulation readiness discussion
  - 08:00
    
    Upgrade Sim 30m
    
    Speaker: Thomas Stuttard (Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen)
    
    UpgradeSim_2020IceCubeSimWorkshop_TomStuttard.pdf
- 10:00 → 10:10
  
  Coffee Break 10m
- 10:10 → 12:00
  
  Open: Discussion/Coding session