https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150445 Bug ID: 1150445 Summary: Review Request: Random123 - Library of random number generator Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Component: Package Review Severity: medium Priority: medium Assignee: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org Reporter: sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org CC: package-review(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Spec URL: https://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/Random123/Random123.spec SRPM URL: https://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/Random123/Random123-1.08-1.fc21.src.rpm Description: Random123 is a library of "counter-based" random number generators (CBRNGs), in which the Nth random number can be obtained by applying a stateless mixing function to N instead of the conventional approach of using N iterations of a stateful transformation. CBRNGs were originally developed for use in MD applications on Anton, but they are ideal for a wide range of applications on modern multi-core CPUs, GPUs, clusters, and special-purpose hardware. Three families of non-cryptographic CBRNGs are described in a paper presented at the SC11 conference: ARS (based on the Advanced Encryption System (AES)), Threefry (based on the Threefish encryption function), and Philox (based on integer multiplication). They all satisfy rigorous statistical testing (passing BigCrush in TestU01), vectorize and parallelize well (each generator can produce at least 264 independent streams), have long periods (the period of each stream is at least 2128), require little or no memory or state, and have excellent performance (a few clock cycles per byte of random output). The Random123 library can be used with CPU (C and C++) and GPU (CUDA and OpenCL) applications. Fedora Account System Username: ankursinha -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component