Release Notes

This section includes significant changes, new features, performance improvements, and various issues. Unless noted, listed issues should not impact functionality. When functionality is impacted, we offer a work-around to avoid the issue (if available).

0.4.0

New Features

• The default ordering (nvplRandOrdering.NVPL_RAND_ORDERING_PSEUDO_DEFAULT) is now nvplRandOrdering.NVPL_RAND_ORDERING_PSEUDO_FAST.

Resolved Issues

• NVPL RAND no longer produces incorrect results for XORWOW, MRG32K3A, and Philox random number generators when used with nvplRandOrdering.NVPL_RAND_ORDERING_CURAND_LEGACY ordering and uniform, normal, log-normal, or Poisson distributions.

• Fixed issue with multi-threaded nvplRandRngType.NVPL_RAND_RNG_PSEUDO_PCG RNG generating incorrect results when used with nvplRandGenerateLongLong().

0.3.0

The first early access release of NVPL RAND library.

New Features

• C API modeled after cuRAND API.

• Includes single- and multi-threaded random number generators.

  • With option to generate the same sequence of values using one or multiple threads with NVPL_RAND_ORDERING_STRICT ordering.

• Support for all generators available in cuRAND except MTGP32.

  • New generator added: permuted congruential generator (PCG).

• Support for all distributions available in cuRAND, and more.

• Option to generate the same sequence of random bits as cuRAND with NVPL_RAND_ORDERING_CURAND_LEGACY ordering.