On 18 May 2009 at 15:50, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
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| Hi Dirk
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| it seems there exists a sprng4 (which uses the autoconf/automake/libtool) and
| in debian only sprng2 is available.
| Moreover it seems that sprng has support for MPI, would it be possible to add
| mpi support ?
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| Unfortunately sprng has not been updated wrt recent version of g++ (4.3 and
| 4.4)
sprng is, politely speaking, a mess.
I forced my way around sprng2 with some help from others (to make it create a
shared library) as I needed a distributed random number generator for use by
R with the snow (r-cran-snow) framework for distributed computing. I never
used sprng as a library.
I am aware that there are newer versions, and I have at times tried, and
failed, to package them. Would you like to tackle this jointly?
Otherwise, from R's side there is another parallel rng provided by
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlecuyer/index.html
Pierre L'Ecuyer is quite well known for RNG work, maybe his code would
suitable for a general purpose library too ? I have been thinking about
packaging this and the retiring r-cran-rsprng and the sprng package.
Thought or comments?
Dirk
| Best regards
| C.
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