RANDLC
NAS Parallel Benchmark Pseudorandom Number Generator

RANDLC is a MATLAB library which implements a version of the pseudorandom number generator used by the NAS Parallel Benchmarks.

The generator has the form

        X(K+1) = A * X(K) mod 2^46
      

This scheme generates 2^44 numbers before repeating.

The web site for the NAS Parallel Benchmarks is http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Software/npb.html.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

RANDLC is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

ASA183, a MATLAB library which implements the Wichman-Hill pseudorandom number generator.

MATLAB_RANDOM, MATLAB programs which illustrate the use of Matlab's random number generators.

NORMAL, a MATLAB library which computes a sequence of pseudorandom normally distributed values.

UNIFORM, a MATLAB library which computes elements of a pseudorandom sequence.

Reference:

1. David Bailey, Eric Barszcz, John Barton, D Browning, Robert Carter, Leonardo Dagum, Rod Fatoohi, Samuel Fineberg, Paul Frederickson, Thomas Lasinski, Robert Schreiber, Horst Simon, V Venkatakrishnan, Sisira Weeratunga,
   The NAS Parallel Benchmarks,
   RNR Technical Report RNR-94-007, March 1994.
2. Donald Knuth,
   The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, Seminumerical Algorithms,
   Third Edition,
   Addison Wesley, 1997,
   ISBN: 0201896842,
   LC: QA76.6.K64.

Source Code:

• randlc.m, generates the next pseudorandom value.
• randlc_jump.m, jumps ahead to the K-th pseudorandom value.

Examples and Tests:

• randlc_test.m, calls all the tests
• randlc_test01.m, just calls RANDLC ten times.
• randlc_test02.m, calls RANDLC ten times and examines the SEED.
• randlc_test03.m, demonstrates how the SEED can be changed to give different results.
• randlc_test04.m, demonstrates how RANDLC_JUMP can jump ahead in the pseudorandom sequence.
• randlc_test_output.txt, the output file.

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