A fast high quality pseudo random number generator for graphics processing units

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 459-465

  Langdon, W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMBER THEORY; PARKS;

FLOATING POINTS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH QUALITIES; NUMERICAL PRECISIONS; PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SPEED-UP;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 55749106765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4630838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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