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Fast Columnar Physics Analyses of Terabyte-Scale LHC Data on a Cache-Aware Dask Cluster (2207.08598v1)

Published 18 Jul 2022 in physics.data-an and hep-ex

Abstract: The development of an LHC physics analysis involves numerous investigations that require the repeated processing of terabytes of data. Thus, a rapid completion of each of these analysis cycles is central to mastering the science project. We present a solution to efficiently handle and accelerate physics analyses on small-size institute clusters. Our solution is based on three key concepts: Vectorized processing of collision events, the "MapReduce" paradigm for scaling out on computing clusters, and efficiently utilized SSD caching to reduce latencies in IO operations. Using simulations from a Higgs pair production physics analysis as an example, we achieve an improvement factor of $6.3$ in runtime after one cycle and even an overall speedup of a factor of $14.9$ after $10$ cycles.

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