clrng: a tool set for parallel random number generation on GPUs in R
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Abstract
{A novel GPU-accelerated package is proposed to enable efficient parallel random number generation in R, significantly improving performance for large-scale statistical simulations.}(i) Context: Parallel processing with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up computationally intensive tasks, which when combined with R, it can largely improve R's limitations in terms of speed, memory usage and single-threaded computation. (ii) Problem: Despite the importance of random number generation for simulation-based statistical inference and modelling, there is currently no R package that supports reproducible, GPU-based parallel random number generation. (iii) Solution: To fill this gap, we introduce the R package clrng, which integrates the OpenCL clRNG library with the gpuR package to enable efficient parallel random number generation on GPUs. (iv) Results: clrng enables reproducible research by setting random initial seeds for streams on both GPU and CPU, thereby accelerating the performance of several types of statistical simulation and modelling. The random number generator in clrng guarantees independent parallel samples even in interactive, ad-hoc R sessions (e.g. interrupted and resumed). This package is portable and flexible, allowing developers to embed its random number generation kernel into a wide range of statistical applications.
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