Wed Oct 27 13:53:00 US/Eastern 1999
Author:
Charles Karney
Princeton University
Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton, NJ, 08543
Phone: [609]243-2607
E-mail: karney@princeton.edu
Title: Random Number Generator
Module: RNG
FTP Site: ftp://ftp.pppl.gov/pub/karney/rng/rng-2.1.tar.gz
Abstract: RNG is a portable, parallel random number generator. It's portable because the same sequence of numbers is generated on all platforms and it's parallel because many independent random sequences can be generated in parallel (for example on separate processors in an MPI program). In addition, the generator is fast (comparable in speed to system-supplied generators) and is of high quality (usually better than the system-supplied generators).
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