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Conference Papers Year : 2014

Generic Deterministic Random Number Generation in Dynamic-Multithreaded Platforms

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On dynamic multithreaded platforms with on-line scheduling such as work-stealing, randomized computations raise the issue of repro-ducibility. Compliant with de facto standard sequential Deterministic Random Number Generators (DRNGs) noted R, we propose a parallel DRNG implementation for finite computations that provides determinis-tic parallel execution. It uses the stateless sub-stream approach, enabling the use of efficient DRNG such as Mersenne Twister or Linear Congru-ential. We demonstrate that if R provides fast jump ahead in the random sequence, the re-seeding overhead is small, polylog in expectation, inde-pendently from the parallel computation's depth. Experiments bench-mark the performance of randomized algorithms employing our solution against the stateful DRNG DotMix, tailored to the Cilk Plus dynamic multithreading runtime. The overhead of our implementation ParDRNG compares favorably to the linear overhead of DotMix re-seedings.
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hal-01102365 , version 1 (12-01-2015)

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Stefano Mor, Jean-Louis Roch, Nicolas Maillard. Generic Deterministic Random Number Generation in Dynamic-Multithreaded Platforms. Euro-Par 2014 Parallel Processing - 20th International Conference, Aug 2014, Porto, Portugal. pp.427 - 438, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-09873-9_36⟩. ⟨hal-01102365⟩
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