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Techniques for testing the quality of parallel pseudorandom number generators

Conference ·
OSTI ID:125516
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  1. Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD (United States)
Ensuring that pseudorandom number generators have good randomness properties is more complicated in a multiprocessor implementation than in the uniprocessor case. We discuss simple extensions of uniprocessor testing for SIMD parallel streams, and develop in detail a repeatability test for the SPMD paradigm. Examples of the application of these tests to an additive tagged-Fibonacci generator are also given.
OSTI ID:
125516
Report Number(s):
CONF-950212--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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