rnglib


rnglib, a FORTRAN90 code which implements random number generators (RNG's) which can generate one or more streams of random numbers.

The code is a portable set of software tools for uniform random variate generation. It provides for multiple generators running simultaneously, and each generator has its sequence of numbers partitioned into many long disjoint substreams. Simple procedure calls allow the user to make any generator jump ahead to the beginning of its next substream.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

rnglib is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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rnglib_test

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Reference:

  1. Pierre LEcuyer, Serge Cote,
    Implementing a Random Number Package with Splitting Facilities,
    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
    Volume 17, Number 1, March 1991, pages 98-111.

Source Code:


Last revised on 18 June 2020.