16–26 Jul 2022
US/Pacific timezone

Julia language for HEP analysis: faster time to insight and enabling more complex analysis

18 Jul 2022, 19:00
2h 20m
211 South Ballroom (HUB)

211 South Ballroom

HUB

Speaker

Jerry Ling (Harvard University)

Description

As the data collection grows larger and computational/statistical techniques become more complex, many physics analysis users are experiencing a "two-language problem"1 without knowing it.

Julia and the ever-growing JuliaHEP2 ecosystem aim to provide end-users the ability to chew through a larger amount of data faster, by being a JIT language from the ground up. And also enable users to do custom machine learning and training because the pure-Julia ecosystem would allow automatic differentiation to propagate freely without foreign-library call barrier.

The poster presenter would talk about:
- Julia and why it's designed precisely for workloads like physics analysis
- How mono language enables effortless parallelization and automatic differentiation
- UnROOT.jl, BAT.jl, pyhf, FHist.jl, etc. and workflow for an end-user analysis in Julia
- Custom training and inference loop based on data before N-tupleized -- enable deeper insight into raw event data, supported by Julia's speed and auto diff ability.

In-person or Virtual? In-person

Primary authors

Jerry Ling (Harvard University) Jan Strube (PNNL) Oliver Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

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