Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 13:29:55 PDT
From: david@dantowitz.com (David Dantowitz)
Subject: Random numbers for parallel processors

Enclosed are a set of routines for computing random numbers using fast
generic C code.  The generator itself is based on the generator used
in the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (EP) and runs on every platform tried
so far.  The code contains diagnostics to help porting from one
machine to another as well as lots of tutorial information on the
implementation.

The code contains a basic routine to generate sequences of random
numbers and a routine to skip ahead in a sequence by any non-negative
number (even values greater than 2^32).

David Dantowitz

p.s. if you know of anyone with some spare cycles on a shared-memory
machine, let me know.  The machine I used to use has been moth-balled.