https://icyveins7.github.io/tags/rng/Recent content in Rng on icyveins7's blogHugoen-usThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0800https://icyveins7.github.io/posts/2025/03/gotta-go-randomly-fast-thrust-vs-curand/Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0800https://icyveins7.github.io/posts/2025/03/gotta-go-randomly-fast-thrust-vs-curand/<blockquote> <p>How fast can you generate (pseudo-)random numbers on the GPU? How fast can you generate (pseudo-)random numbers on the GPU?</p> </blockquote> <p>I recently had to answer this question. Well, not exactly this question, but this was a key part of it.</p> <p>A quick google search will bring up two common methods (libraries) when trying to do this in CUDA: thrust and cuRAND. Thrust is known to be a lot easier to set up; no need to write the kernel code and nitty gritty details, so I started with that.</p>