# 25th International Conference on Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics

May 17 – 21, 2021
Europe/Paris timezone

## Distributed statistical inference with pyhf enabled through funcX

May 20, 2021, 3:13 PM
13m
Short Talk Distributed Computing, Data Management and Facilities

### Speaker

Matthew Feickert (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

### Description

In High Energy Physics facilities that provide High Performance Computing environments provide an opportunity to efficiently perform the statistical inference required for analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider, but can pose problems with orchestration and efficient scheduling. The compute architectures at these facilities do not easily support the Python compute model, and the configuration scheduling of batch jobs for physics often requires expertise in multiple job scheduling services. The combination of the pure-Python libraries pyhf and funcX reduces the common problem in HEP analyses of performing statistical inference with binned models, that would traditionally take multiple hours and bespoke scheduling, to an on-demand (fitting) function as a service'' that can scalably execute across workers in just a few minutes, offering reduced time to insight and inference. We demonstrate execution of a scalable workflow using funcX to simultaneously fit 125 signal hypotheses from a published ATLAS search for new physics using pyhf with a wall time of under 3 minutes. We additionally show performance comparisons for other physics analyses with openly published probability models and argue for a blueprint of fitting as a service systems at HPC centers.

### Primary authors

Matthew Feickert (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)) Lukas Alexander Heinrich (CERN) Dr Giordon Holtsberg Stark (University of California,Santa Cruz (US)) Benjamin Galewsky (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))

### Presentation materials

 Distributed statistical inference with pyhf enabled through funcX Feickert_2021-05-20.pdf Project GitHub repository Recording