servicex-for-trexfitter 1.1.0

Interface ServiceX into TRExFitter to provide an alternative method of reading input ntuples

ServiceX for TRExFitter

For GitHub and PyPI release v1.1.0

Overview

ServiceX, a component of the IRIS-HEP DOMA group's iDDS, is an experiment-agnostic service to enable on-demand data delivery from data lakes in different data formats, including Apache Arrow and ROOT ntuple.

TRExFitter is a popular framework to perform profile likelihood fits in ATLAS experiment. It takes ROOT histograms or ntuples as input. Long turnaround time of ntuple reading for large and/or remote data would slow down the whole analysis.

servicex-for-trexfitter is a Python package to integrate ServiceX into the TRExFitter framework. It provides an alternative workflow if you use ROOT ntuples as inputs. The package analyzes your TRExFitter configuration file, and delivers only necessary branches and entries to produce all histograms defined in your TRExFitter configuration file.

The default workflow requires to download all ROOT ntuples to your local machine or CERN EOS area from the grid. The workflow using servicex-for-trexfitter, on the the other hand, delivers only a subset of ROOT ntuples. It practically replaces the step to download ROOT ntuples from the grid using Rucio.

The main advantages are:

• Disk space: No need to store all ROOT ntuples locally. A reduction on the delivered ROOT ntuples by servicex-for-trexfitter varies accoring to the setting in your TRExFitter configuration file.
• Faster turnaround: Download of ROOT ntuples can be faster for servicex-for-trexfitter as it parallelizes your job up to each TTree of each file and delivers smaller ROOT ntuples over WAN. Processing time of TRExFitter option n is naturally faster for the workflow using servicex-for-trexfitter as it runs over smaller ROOT ntuples.
• Simplicity: A single TRExFitter configuration file to get ROOT ntuples from the grid using servicex-for-trexfitter and all other TRExFitter steps. No separate script needed to download all ROOT ntuples from the grid.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6, 3.7, or 3.8
• Access to an Uproot ServiceX endpoint. More information about ServiceX can be found at ServiceX documentation

Usage

Installation

The library is published at PyPI: servicex-for-trexfitter

Prepare TRExFitter configuration

The followings are the settings needed for the workflow using servicex-for-trexfitter:

Job block settings

• NtuplePaths: <PATH>
  • The path where input root files are stored.
  • Write permission is required as ServiceX delivers root ntuples to the subdirectory servicex of this path.

Sample block settings

• GridDID: <Rucio DID>
  • Add option GridDID for the Sample using ServiceX for delivery.
  • Both scope and name for GridDID, e.g., user.kchoi:user.kchoi.WZana_WZ.
  • Sample can have multiple DIDs: e.g., user.kchoi:user.kchoi.WZana_WZ_mc16a, user.kchoi:user.kchoi.WZana_WZ_mc16d, user.kchoi:user.kchoi.WZana_WZ_mc16e
  • Sample without an option GridDID is treated as a typical Sample, which reads ntuple files from local path.
• NtupleFile: servicex/<SAMPLE NAME>
  • servicex-for-trexfitter delivers one ROOT file per Sample with the same name as the Sample name.
  • This option is required only for the Samples with option GridDID. Other Samples can use any option valid for option NTUP.

Here is a side-by-side comparsion of example configuration files:

servicex-for-trexfitter	Default

Caveat

• Only scalar-type of TBranch is supported.
• Most of standard TCut expressions are supported for Selection,but special functions like Sum$(formula) are not supported yet. Please find more about the supported TCut expression here.

Deliver ROOT ntuples

from servicex_for_trexfitter import ServiceXTRExFitter
sx_trex = ServiceXTRExFitter("<TRExFitter configuration file>")
sx_trex.get_ntuples()

Once you load the package, you can define an instance with an argument of TRExFitter configuration file. You can then ask for delivery of ROOT ntuples. It will initiate ServiceX transformation(s) based on your TRExFitter configuration, and deliver ROOT ntuples to the path you specified at NtuplePaths/servicex.

Local data cache

ServiceX provides the feature that caches your queries and data into a local temporary directory. Therefore, whenever you make further changes to the TRExFitter configuration file, servicex-for-trexfitter creates data delivery requests only for the updated parts.

Compatible TRExFitter framework

To run the subsequent steps of TRExFitter with the ROOT ntuples that servicex-for-trexfitter delivered, you need to checkout the branch feat/servicex-integration of TRExFitter framework. Otherwise, TRExFitter will complain about the unknown options. The feature branch will be merged into master in the near future.

Acknowledgements

Support for this work was provided by the the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics under Grant No. DE-SC0007890