Joshua,
This is for ticket #2928, right?
-Paul
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Joshua Ladd <josh...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> What: Add an internal random number generator to OPAL.
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> Why: OMPI uses rand and srand all over the place. Because the middleware
> is mucking with the RNG's global state, applications that use these library
> routines will not achieve reproducible results with the same seed.
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> How: I plan to put in an additive lagged Fibonacci generator seeded with a
> Tausworthe generator that itself is seeded by the user's seed. The short
> story here is that the ALFG has a toroidal state space, i.e. it can be
> decomposed into non-overlapping cycles with maximal period. It's well
> understood how to fully enumerate these cycles when, for a length k
> register composed of m-bit words, we view this as a k X m binary matrix. It
> was proven by Marsaglia et al. that this matrix has a canonical form that
> is uniquely determined by the values k and l (the two numbers that (almost)
> completely characterize an ALFG.) So, distinct seeds are guaranteed to map
> to distinct, non-overlapping, long period streams that have measurably
> very, very low inter- and intra-stream correlations. We used this for
> large scale Monte Carlo simulations back in my PhD days.
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> Will define a new type:
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> struct opal_rng_buffer_t {
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> uint32_t buff[127]; /* if people are going to pitch a fit over the size,
> we can go smaller, down to 7, but, obviously, this affects the quality of
> the streams */
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> int tap1;
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> int tap2;
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> };
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> and two functions:
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> /* User is responsible for defining his/her own opal_rng_buffer_t
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> * or malloc-ing and managing the resources themselves.
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> */
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> int opal_srand(opal_rng_buffer_t *buff, uint32_t seed);
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> /* Returns a 32-bit pseudo random integer */
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> uint32_t opal_rand(opal_rng_buffer_t *buff);
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> When: Should be in by the end of February. Code is written, but
> integration and testing always takes some time.
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> Joshua S. Ladd, PhD
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> HPC Algorithms Engineer
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> Mellanox Technologies
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> Email: josh...@mellanox.com
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> Cell: +1 (865) 258 - 8898
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