An Object-oriented minimization package for HEP
A portion of the HEP community has perceived the need for a minimization package written in C++ and taking advantage of the Object-Oriented nature of that language. To be acceptable for HEP, such a package must at least encompass all the capabilities of Minuit. Aside from the slight plus of not relying on outside Fortran compilation, the advantages that a C++ package based on O-O design would confer over the multitude of available C++ Minuit-wrappers include: Easier extensibility to different algorithms and forms of constraints; and usage modes which would not be available in the global-common-based Minuit design. An example of the latter is a job pursuing two ongoing minimization problems simultaneously. We discuss the design and implementation of such a package, which extends Minuit only in minor ways but which greatly diminishes the programming effort (if not the algorithm thought) needed to make more significant extensions.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 812153
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-Conf-03/160; TRN: US0303327
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: CHEP'03 Computers in High Energy Nuclear Physics, La Jolla, CA (US), 03/24/2003--03/28/2003; Other Information: PBD: 2 Jul 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
The ZOOM minimization package
The ZOOM Fermilab physics class libraries