TILED CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR AREA-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS

Bernard Girau, Nikolaos Vlassopoulos

2011

Abstract

Generating multiple random numbers in a parallel fashion for scientific simulations is an intense task that requires significant hardware resources. In our present work we focus on an existing Cellular Automaton and present an efficient architecture that reuses this CA to generate pseudo random numbers in a two dimensional context.

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Girau B. and Vlassopoulos N. (2011). TILED CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR AREA-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8425-48-5, pages 397-404. DOI: 10.5220/0003371103970404


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@conference{peccs11,
author={Bernard Girau and Nikolaos Vlassopoulos},
title={TILED CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR AREA-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2011},
pages={397-404},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003371103970404},
isbn={978-989-8425-48-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - TILED CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR AREA-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS
SN - 978-989-8425-48-5
AU - Girau B.
AU - Vlassopoulos N.
PY - 2011
SP - 397
EP - 404
DO - 10.5220/0003371103970404