Chapel interface to random numbers

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Chapel interface to random numbers #5

Open npadmana opened 5 years ago

npadmana commented 5 years ago

It would be useful to have a Chapel interface to the random number generators (see comments from @LouisJenkinsCS here https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/12743).

Useful functionality would include:

[ ] Simple wrappers for creating/cleaning up GSL random number generators, and accessing next numbers.
[ ] Wrappers around common distributions (Gaussian, Poisson, what else)

LouisJenkinsCS commented 5 years ago

I think it should match Chapel's random module, but I really think that this should be cross-posted to chapel-lang/chapel/issues since we're more likely to get good feedback since we want it to essentially replace Chapel's standard (it could even become the new standard)