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GooFit: A library for massively parallelising maximum-likelihood fits

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2015-06-17 v1 Mathematical Software

Abstract

Fitting complicated models to large datasets is a bottleneck of many analyses. We present GooFit, a library and tool for constructing arbitrarily-complex probability density functions (PDFs) to be evaluated on nVidia GPUs or on multicore CPUs using OpenMP. The massive parallelisation of dividing up event calculations between hundreds of processors can achieve speedups of factors 200-300 in real-world problems.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1753,
  title  = {GooFit: A library for massively parallelising maximum-likelihood fits},
  author = {R. Andreassen and B. T. Meadows and M. de Silva and M. D. Sokoloff and K. Tomko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1753},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Presented at the CHEP 2013 conference

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