Note: This package is being phased out.

The same functionality is available with CuArrays.

CURAND.jl

Wrapper for NVidia's cuRAND library.

High-level interface

CURAND.jl provides the following list of high-level functions:

• curand - generate CudaArray of uniformly distributed numbers
• curandn - generate CudaArray of normally distributed numbers
• curand_logn - generate CudaArray of log-normally distributed numbers
• curand_poisson - generate numbers according to Poisson distribution

Here are some examples:

using CUDAdrv
using CURAND

# generate CudaArray of 10 Float64 numbers and copy them to host to view
d_a = curand(10)
typeof(d_a)

# generate array of Float32 numbers
d_a = curand(Float32, 10)

These examples use default random number generator of type CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_DEFAULT, you can also create custom generator and use in your calls:

rng = create_generator(CURAND_RNG_QUASI_DEFAULT)

# create array of 10 uniformly distributed numbers using custom RNG
d_a = curand(rng, Float64, 10)

# create array of 10 normally distributed numbers with mean 0.0 
# and standard deviation 0.5 using cutsom RNG
d_a = curandn(rng, Float64, 10, 0.0, 0.5)

cuRAND support following RNG types (see cuRAND documentation for details):

CURAND_RNG_TEST
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_DEFAULT	
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_XORWOW	
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_MRG32K3A
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_MTGP32
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_MT19937
CURAND_RNG_PSEUDO_PHILOX4_32_10
CURAND_RNG_QUASI_DEFAULT
CURAND_RNG_QUASI_SOBOL32
CURAND_RNG_QUASI_SCRAMBLED_SOBOL32
CURAND_RNG_QUASI_SOBOL64
CURAND_RNG_QUASI_SCRAMBLED_SOBOL64

Low-level API

There's also low-level API that wraps most functions from original curand.h. E.g. you can set a seed for a pseudo generator as follows:

rng = create_generator()

set_pseudo_random_generator_seed(rng, 100)

# set seed for default RNG
set_pseudo_random_generator_seed(CURAND._rng, 100)

TODO

Following functions are not implemented yet:

• curandSetStream
• curandGetDirectionVectors32
• curandGetScrambleConstants32
• curandGetDirectionVectors64
• curandGetScrambleConstants64