Speaker
W. E. Brown
(FERMILAB)
Description
As an active participant in the international C++ standardization effort, Fermilab
has contributed significant expertise toward the analysis and design of a
random-number facility suitable for incorporation into the forthcoming update to the
C++ standard. A first version of this design has been promulgated as part of a
recently-approved Technical Report issued by the C++ Working Group of the
International Standards Organization.
In addition to its design contributions, Fermilab has produced a reference
implementation of the TR facility. Known as hep_random, this implementation has also
served as a vehicle for experimentation with extensions valuable to the scientific
community in general and to the HEP community in particular.
In this paper, we describe the design of the TR1 random-number library. We also
discuss our experience in implementing both this design and Fermilab's extensions to
it. We conclude by describing our recommendations to the C++ standards bodies based
on our experiences.
Primary author
W. E. Brown
(FERMILAB)
