List of SPRNG Users

Some SPRNG Users

Last updated: Jun 20 2007

U.S. Research Laboratories
Foreign Research Labratories
U.S. Universities
Foreign Universities
Software Packages

Other

U.S. Research Laboratories

Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center, Department of Defense

SPRNG 2.0 installed on ASCMSRC machines. IRIX UNIX / True64 UNIX w SC 2.6.

Los Alamos National Lab

TRANSIMS (Transportation Analysis Simulation System) supplies SPRNG. Linux/Solaris.
Draco Computational Physics System Component Library - The RNG - Random Number Generator provides a type-safe wrapper to the SPRNG parallel random num generator utility.

National Center for Computational Sciences

SPRNG is installed on three machines.

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

SPRNG is installed on seaborg . Both versions 1.0 and 2.0 are available. THE NERSC IBM SP RS/600, named Seaborg, is a distributed memory computer with 6,080 processors.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

SPRNG 1.0 and 2.0 are installed on some PSC platforms.

SDSC: San Diego Supercomputer Center at Univeristy of California San Diego

SPRNG 1.0 is one of the applications software installed on SDSC platforms.

Foreign Research Labs

Computer Services for Academic Research (CSAR) of UK National High Performance Computing (HPC) Service, United Kingdom

SPRNG 2.0 is one of the Mathematical packages that are available on CSAR machines. The CSAR machines are high performance SGI systems.

Irish Centre for High-End Computing

SPRNG 2.0 is installed on 2 machines.

SARA Computing & Networking Services, The Netherlands

SPRNG is installed on SOLO. SOLO is a supercomputer that runs on AIX (Unix).
SPRNG 2.0 is one of the parallel libraries installed on the TERAS system. Irix.
SPRNG 2.0 is one of the parallel libraries installed on the LISA system. Debian Linux.

U.S. Universities

Colorado School of Mines

SPRNG is used for the PRIME research

Dartmouth College

SPRNG is introduced in the class Software Development in the UNIX Environment

Indiana University

SPRNG is mentioned in the Indiana University University Information Services - Research Computing

Western Michigan University Department of Computer Science

The PARINT 1.2 Beta package uses SPRNG for Monte Carlo integration rules in a parallel computations.

Univeristy of California - San Diego

SPRNG is being introduced in the course Parallel Computing

University of Delaware

SPRNG is introduced in the class Parallel Computation.

University of Idaho

SPRNG is introduced in the class Evolutionary Computation.

University of Illinois - Chicago

SPRNG is introduced in the course Introduction to Supercomputing

University of Minnesota at Duluth

SPRNG is installed on the Beowolf cluster.

Univeristy of Tennessee Space Institute

SPRNG 2.0 is installed on Mach14. Mach 14 is a Redhat Linux system.

University of Texas at Austin

SPRNG 2.0 is installed on the Texas Advanced Computing Center machines.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

SPRNG is used to develop software for physics

The State University of New York at Buffalo

SPRNG is introduced in the course High Performance Computing.

Foreign Universities

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

SPRNG 1.0 and 2.0 are being introduced in the course Parallel and Distributed Computing

Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM), Germany

Zam uses SPRNG as one of its mathmatical applications.

Hong Kong Baptist University

The School of Science has tested SPRNG 2.0 on the Rocks 2.3.2 operating system.

The French National Institute for Research in Computer Sciences and Control / Institut Natioinal de Recheree en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)

SPRNG is used in INRIA

National Technical University, Greece

SPRNG is introduced in a Physics class

University of Catania, Italy

In the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, SPRNG 4.0 is used in a parallel direct Monte Carlo simulation (over an "MPI Grid") about electron transport in semiconductors.

Software Packages

Genesis

Genesis 5 uses SPRNG for one of its math routines.

Ohmms

Ohmms has been developed to provide object-oriented high-performance solutions for multi-scale materials simulations. It includes SPRNG. Ohmms is developed at National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Materials Computation Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the department of physics, Ohio State University.

rsprng

rsprng provides interface to SPRNG APIs, and examples and documentation for its use.

Other

High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI, by Joseph D. Sloan

SPRNG is introduced in this book.

Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods, Second Edition, by James E. Gentle

This book mentions SPRNG.

Research Paper Published in Medical Physics, September 2004

Implementation of the DPM Monte Carlo code on a parallel architecture for treatment planning applications, by N. Tyagi, A. Bose, and I. Chetty. This research used SPRNG to obtain some of its results

Research Paper Published in the Brazilian Journal of Physics

Critical Behavior of Ising Models with Random Long-Range (Small-World) Interactions, by X. Zhang and M. A. Novotny. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Computational Sciences, Mississippi State University. SPRNG was used for obtaining some of the results in this paper.

TeraGrid

SPRNG 2.0 is installed on SDSC TeraGrid IA-64 Cluster.

The World Wide Virtual Library

SPRNG is included in the World Wide Virtual Library.