Speaker
Rolf Edward Andreassen
(University of Cincinnati (US))
Description
We present a general framework for maximum-likelihood fitting, in which GPUs are used to massively parallelise the per-event probability calculation. For realistic physics fits we achieve speedups, relative to executing the same algorithm on a single CPU, of several hundred.
Primary author
Rolf Edward Andreassen
(University of Cincinnati (US))
Co-authors
Brian Meadows
(University of Cincinnati (US))
Dr
Karen Tomko
(Ohio Supercomputer Center)
Michael Sokoloff
(University of Cincinnati)
Weeraddana De Silva
(University of Cincinnati (US))
