| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 245, 2020
24th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2019)
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| Article Number | 06007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | 6 - Physics Analysis | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024506007 | |
| Published online | 16 November 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024506007
A Faster, More Intuitive RooFit
CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: stephan.hageboeck@cern.ch
Published online: 16 November 2020
RooFit and RooStats, the toolkits for statistical modelling in ROOT, are used in most searches and measurements at the Large Hadron Collider as well as at B factories. Larger datasets to be collected at e.g. the HighLuminosity LHC will enable measurements with higher precision, but will require faster data processing to keep fitting times stable. In this work, a simplification of RooFit’s interfaces and a redesign of its internal dataflow is presented. Interfaces are being extended to look and feel more STL-like to be more accessible both from C++ and Python to improve interoperability and ease of use, while maintaining compatibility with old code. The redesign of the dataflow improves cache locality and data loading, and can be used to process batches of data with vectorised SIMD computations. This reduces the time for computing unbinned likelihoods by a factor four to 16. This will allow to fit larger datasets of the future in the same time or faster than today’s fits.
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