JuliaCon 2025

Making histograms on GPU how hard can that be?
2025-07-25 , Lawrence Room 120 - REPL Main Stage

GPU for histogramming


In this talk, we demonstrate a GPU-friendly extension to the FHist.jl. Within the analysis computing ecosystem, moving to GPU has been a steady trend, however, since any event we select almost always goes to a histogram, it would be a huge bottleneck if histogramming requires moving data GPU -> CPU.

We briefly discuss the design and implementation of GPU-backed histogram, and then show some benchmarks to inform the audience what kind of performance tradeoff is being made when you use GPU for histogramming.

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5th year PhD Student in Experimental High-energy Physics at Harvard University. @JuliaHEP

I am a Ph.D. student in high energy physics at Harvard University working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN. I am interested in dark matters searches, event generators, machine learning and applying Julia to physics analysis.