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Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization Library
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Random Number Generator #11

Open mclarsen opened 10 years ago

mclarsen commented 10 years ago

I would like to request the addition of an random number generator for Monte Carlo simulations that can be accessed inside a functor.

jsmeredith commented 10 years ago

Matt points out there are good libraries for doing this on a GPU (like curand), though of course we need to abstract it so it's not CUDA-specific.

I believe curand I believe needs a state vector (basically one int per thread?), so there's some chance an abstraction like the "counting iterator" (see issue #10) might be useful here.