Boost.Random and Dieharder et al.
Hi, I am working with a team developing some utilities for a simulation, and one of our requirements is to test the quality of the random generators. We based the utility on Boost.Random, but now have to show that that was a good decision. Has anyone verified the generators (e.g. Mersenne Twister or Linear Congruential ) in Boost.Random pass the Dieharder, Ent, and/or TestU01 suites? Any comments or suggestions on this are appreciated, Pat
AMDG Patricia Hawley wrote:
I am working with a team developing some utilities for a simulation, and one of our requirements is to test the quality of the random generators. We based the utility on Boost.Random, but now have to show that that was a good decision. Has anyone verified the generators (e.g. Mersenne Twister or Linear Congruential ) in Boost.Random pass the Dieharder, Ent, and/or TestU01 suites?
You ought to be able to find results for mt19937 from these tests. The authors of TestU01 at least provide a table showing results for many generators in their paper. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/testu01.pdf In Christ, Steven Watanabe
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