John Jacobsen interviewed at OSCON 2010
summary
The project builds the world’s largest neutrino detector by embedding light sensors in Antarctic ice to catch rare particle interactions, producing about 1 TB/hour raw that a local filtering farm reduces before daily NASA satellite pushes. Infrastructure sits roughly 800 m from the station with power fed under the skiway, a lab with 150 server nodes and tape backups that suffer static in the dry air, winter staffing is two winter-over scientists, and construction finishes after one more season of a 15-year program.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00The IceCube Project
- 0:31Why the South Pole?
- 1:05Data Transmission
- 1:44Powering the Detector
- 2:35Winter Operations
- 3:33Summer Drilling and Staff
- 5:08Environmental Challenges
- 5:53Data Connectivity
- 7:02Data Analysis Resources
- 8:11Scientific Goals
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