[Bug 1150445] New: Review Request: Random123 - Library of random number generator

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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 at fedoraproject.org
          Reporter: sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: package-review at 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

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