From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23296 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2006 15:48:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 23244 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jul 2006 15:48:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from network-theory.com (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:48:28 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87sll0nsfq.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: "Robert G. Brown" Cc: GSL Discussion list Subject: Re: dieharder 1.0.21 In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Reply-To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 804bc36c8591574e51c7936042300a13 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 At Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:49:50 -0400 (EDT), Robert G. Brown wrote: > I finally got sufficiently motivated to finish putting the rest of the > diehard tests into dieharder. At this point in time there are 21 tests > supported by dieharder -- 16 distinct diehard tests, two tests I > invented (one of which no random number generator I've tested passes, > although it is a very simple and intuitive one), a timing test, and two > STS (Statistical Test Suite from NIST) tests. Any GSL rng can be tested > or played with from within the tool by means of a simple command line > option. Thanks for the update... I've added a link for Dieharder to the main GSL webpage at gnu.org (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/) -- Brian Gough