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Evaluation of Likelihood Functions for Data Analysis on Graphics Processing Units

Date published: 
Monday, 16 May, 2011
Document type: 
Conference paper
Author(s): 
S. Jarp, A. Lazzaro, J. Leduc, A. Nowak, F. Pantaleo
Data analysis techniques based on likelihood function calculation play a crucial role in many High Energy Physics measurements. Depending on the complexity of the models used in the analyses, with several free parameters, many independent variables, large data samples, and complex functions, the calculation of the likelihood functions can require a long CPU execution time...
Event published at: 
The 12th International Workshop on parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (IPDPS11)