From: guyeux Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:59:15 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Déplacement du blabla sur les topologies X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/prng_gpu.git/commitdiff_plain/e50023308645e1a1f0a3778504579120d9ef328d?ds=sidebyside Déplacement du blabla sur les topologies --- diff --git a/prng_gpu.tex b/prng_gpu.tex index d1fb7a6..dccf50a 100644 --- a/prng_gpu.tex +++ b/prng_gpu.tex @@ -226,8 +226,7 @@ We have proposed in~\cite{bgw09:ip} a new family of generators that receives two PRNGs as inputs. These two generators are mixed with chaotic iterations, leading thus to a new PRNG that improves the statistical properties of each generator taken alone. Furthermore, our generator -possesses various chaos properties -that none of the generators used as input present. +possesses various chaos properties that none of the generators used as input present. \begin{algorithm}[h!] %\begin{scriptsize} @@ -287,7 +286,226 @@ We have proven in \cite{FCT11} that, -\alert{Mettre encore un peu de blabla sur le PRNG, puis enchaîner en disant que, ok, on peut préserver le chaos quand on passe sur machine, mais que le chaos dont il s'agit a été prouvé pour une distance bizarroïde sur un espace non moins hémoroïde, d'où ce qui suit} + +\section{Efficient prng based on chaotic iterations} + +In order to implement efficiently a PRNG based on chaotic iterations it is +possible to improve previous works [ref]. One solution consists in considering +that the strategy used contains all the bits for which the negation is +achieved out. Then in order to apply the negation on these bits we can simply +apply the xor operator between the current number and the strategy. In +order to obtain the strategy we also use a classical PRNG. + +Here is an example with 16-bits numbers showing how the bitwise operations are +applied. Suppose that $x$ and the strategy $S^i$ are defined in binary mode. +Then the following table shows the result of $x$ xor $S^i$. +$$ +\begin{array}{|cc|cccccccccccccccc|} +\hline +x &=&1&0&1&1&1&0&1&0&1&0&0&1&0&0&1&0\\ +\hline +S^i &=&0&1&1&0&0&1&1&0&1&1&1&0&0&1&1&1\\ +\hline +x \oplus S^i&=&1&1&0&1&1&1&0&0&0&1&1&1&0&1&0&1\\ +\hline + +\hline + \end{array} +$$ + +%% \begin{figure}[htbp] +%% \begin{center} +%% \fbox{ +%% \begin{minipage}{14cm} +%% unsigned int CIprng() \{\\ +%% static unsigned int x = 123123123;\\ +%% unsigned long t1 = xorshift();\\ +%% unsigned long t2 = xor128();\\ +%% unsigned long t3 = xorwow();\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t1;\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t2$>>$32);\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t3$>>$32);\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t2;\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t1$>>$32);\\ +%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t3;\\ +%% return x;\\ +%% \} +%% \end{minipage} +%% } +%% \end{center} +%% \caption{sequential Chaotic Iteration PRNG} +%% \label{algo:seqCIprng} +%% \end{figure} + + + +\lstset{language=C,caption={C code of the sequential chaotic iterations based PRNG},label=algo:seqCIprng} +\begin{lstlisting} +unsigned int CIprng() { + static unsigned int x = 123123123; + unsigned long t1 = xorshift(); + unsigned long t2 = xor128(); + unsigned long t3 = xorwow(); + x = x^(unsigned int)t1; + x = x^(unsigned int)(t2>>32); + x = x^(unsigned int)(t3>>32); + x = x^(unsigned int)t2; + x = x^(unsigned int)(t1>>32); + x = x^(unsigned int)t3; + return x; +} +\end{lstlisting} + + + + + +In listing~\ref{algo:seqCIprng} a sequential version of our chaotic iterations +based PRNG is presented. The xor operator is represented by +\textasciicircum. This function uses three classical 64-bits PRNG: the +\texttt{xorshift}, the \texttt{xor128} and the \texttt{xorwow}. In the +following, we call them xor-like PRNGSs. These three PRNGs are presented +in~\cite{Marsaglia2003}. As each xor-like PRNG used works with 64-bits and as +our PRNG works with 32-bits, the use of \texttt{(unsigned int)} selects the 32 +least significant bits whereas \texttt{(unsigned int)(t3$>>$32)} selects the 32 +most significants bits of the variable \texttt{t}. So to produce a random +number realizes 6 xor operations with 6 32-bits numbers produced by 3 64-bits +PRNG. This version successes the BigCrush of the TestU01 battery [P. L’ecuyer + and R. Simard. Testu01]. + +\section{Efficient prng based on chaotic iterations on GPU} + +In order to benefit from computing power of GPU, a program needs to define +independent blocks of threads which can be computed simultaneously. In general, +the larger the number of threads is, the more local memory is used and the less +branching instructions are used (if, while, ...), the better performance is +obtained on GPU. So with algorithm \ref{algo:seqCIprng} presented in the +previous section, it is possible to build a similar program which computes PRNG +on GPU. In the CUDA [ref] environment, threads have a local identificator, +called \texttt{ThreadIdx} relative to the block containing them. + + +\subsection{Naive version for GPU} + +From the CPU version, it is possible to obtain a quite similar version for GPU. +The principe consists in assigning the computation of a PRNG as in sequential to +each thread of the GPU. Of course, it is essential that the three xor-like +PRNGs used for our computation have different parameters. So we chose them +randomly with another PRNG. As the initialisation is performed by the CPU, we +have chosen to use the ISAAC PRNG [ref] to initalize all the parameters for the +GPU version of our PRNG. The implementation of the three xor-like PRNGs is +straightforward as soon as their parameters have been allocated in the GPU +memory. Each xor-like PRNGs used works with an internal number $x$ which keeps +the last generated random numbers. Other internal variables are also used by the +xor-like PRNGs. More precisely, the implementation of the xor128, the xorshift +and the xorwow respectively require 4, 5 and 6 unsigned long as internal +variables. + +\begin{algorithm} + +\KwIn{InternalVarXorLikeArray: array with internal variables of the 3 xor-like PRNGs in global memory\; +NumThreads: Number of threads\;} +\KwOut{NewNb: array containing random numbers in global memory} +\If{threadIdx is concerned by the computation} { + retrieve data from InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadIdx] in local variables\; + \For{i=1 to n} { + compute a new PRNG as in Listing\ref{algo:seqCIprng}\; + store the new PRNG in NewNb[NumThreads*threadIdx+i]\; + } + store internal variables in InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadIdx]\; +} + +\caption{main kernel for the chaotic iterations based PRNG GPU naive version} +\label{algo:gpu_kernel} +\end{algorithm} + +Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel} presents a naive implementation of PRNG using +GPU. According to the available memory in the GPU and the number of threads +used simultenaously, the number of random numbers that a thread can generate +inside a kernel is limited, i.e. the variable \texttt{n} in +algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel}. For example, if $100,000$ threads are used and +if $n=100$\footnote{in fact, we need to add the initial seed (a 32-bits number)} +then the memory required to store internals variables of xor-like +PRNGs\footnote{we multiply this number by $2$ in order to count 32-bits numbers} +and random number of our PRNG is equals to $100,000\times ((4+5+6)\times +2+(1+100))=1,310,000$ 32-bits numbers, i.e. about $52$Mb. + +All the tests performed to pass the BigCrush of TestU01 succeeded. Different +number of threads, called \texttt{NumThreads} in our algorithm, have been tested +upto $10$ millions. + +\begin{remark} +Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel} has the advantage to manipulate independent +PRNGs, so this version is easily usable on a cluster of computer. The only thing +to ensure is to use a single ISAAC PRNG. For this, a simple solution consists in +using a master node for the initialization which computes the initial parameters +for all the differents nodes involves in the computation. +\end{remark} + +\subsection{Improved version for GPU} + +As GPU cards using CUDA have shared memory between threads of the same block, it +is possible to use this feature in order to simplify the previous algorithm, +i.e. using less than 3 xor-like PRNGs. The solution consists in computing only +one xor-like PRNG by thread, saving it into shared memory and using the results +of some other threads in the same block of threads. In order to define which +thread uses the result of which other one, we can use a permutation array which +contains the indexes of all threads and for which a permutation has been +performed. In Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel2}, 2 permutations arrays are used. +The variable \texttt{offset} is computed using the value of +\texttt{permutation\_size}. Then we can compute \texttt{o1} and \texttt{o2} +which represent the indexes of the other threads for which the results are used +by the current thread. In the algorithm, we consider that a 64-bits xor-like +PRNG is used, that is why both 32-bits parts are used. + +This version also succeed to the BigCrush batteries of tests. + +\begin{algorithm} + +\KwIn{InternalVarXorLikeArray: array with internal variables of 1 xor-like PRNGs in global memory\; +NumThreads: Number of threads\; +tab1, tab2: Arrays containing permutations of size permutation\_size\;} + +\KwOut{NewNb: array containing random numbers in global memory} +\If{threadId is concerned} { + retrieve data from InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadId] in local variables\; + offset = threadIdx\%permutation\_size\; + o1 = threadIdx-offset+tab1[offset]\; + o2 = threadIdx-offset+tab2[offset]\; + \For{i=1 to n} { + t=xor-like()\; + shared\_mem[threadId]=(unsigned int)t\; + x = x $\oplus$ (unsigned int) t\; + x = x $\oplus$ (unsigned int) (t>>32)\; + x = x $\oplus$ shared[o1]\; + x = x $\oplus$ shared[o2]\; + + store the new PRNG in NewNb[NumThreads*threadId+i]\; + } + store internal variables in InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadId]\; +} + +\caption{main kernel for the chaotic iterations based PRNG GPU efficient version} +\label{algo:gpu_kernel2} +\end{algorithm} + + + +\section{Experiments} + +Differents experiments have been performed in order to measure the generation speed. +\begin{figure}[t] +\begin{center} + \includegraphics[scale=.7]{curve_time_gpu.pdf} +\end{center} +\caption{Number of random numbers generated per second} +\label{fig:time_naive_gpu} +\end{figure} + + +First of all we have compared the time to generate X random numbers with both the CPU version and the GPU version. + +Faire une courbe du nombre de random en fonction du nombre de threads, éventuellement en fonction du nombres de threads par bloc. @@ -665,225 +883,8 @@ Indeed this result is weaker than the theorem establishing the chaos for the fin -\section{Efficient prng based on chaotic iterations} - -In order to implement efficiently a PRNG based on chaotic iterations it is -possible to improve previous works [ref]. One solution consists in considering -that the strategy used contains all the bits for which the negation is -achieved out. Then in order to apply the negation on these bits we can simply -apply the xor operator between the current number and the strategy. In -order to obtain the strategy we also use a classical PRNG. - -Here is an example with 16-bits numbers showing how the bitwise operations are -applied. Suppose that $x$ and the strategy $S^i$ are defined in binary mode. -Then the following table shows the result of $x$ xor $S^i$. -$$ -\begin{array}{|cc|cccccccccccccccc|} -\hline -x &=&1&0&1&1&1&0&1&0&1&0&0&1&0&0&1&0\\ -\hline -S^i &=&0&1&1&0&0&1&1&0&1&1&1&0&0&1&1&1\\ -\hline -x \oplus S^i&=&1&1&0&1&1&1&0&0&0&1&1&1&0&1&0&1\\ -\hline -\hline - \end{array} -$$ -%% \begin{figure}[htbp] -%% \begin{center} -%% \fbox{ -%% \begin{minipage}{14cm} -%% unsigned int CIprng() \{\\ -%% static unsigned int x = 123123123;\\ -%% unsigned long t1 = xorshift();\\ -%% unsigned long t2 = xor128();\\ -%% unsigned long t3 = xorwow();\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t1;\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t2$>>$32);\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t3$>>$32);\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t2;\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)(t1$>>$32);\\ -%% x = x\textasciicircum (unsigned int)t3;\\ -%% return x;\\ -%% \} -%% \end{minipage} -%% } -%% \end{center} -%% \caption{sequential Chaotic Iteration PRNG} -%% \label{algo:seqCIprng} -%% \end{figure} - - - -\lstset{language=C,caption={C code of the sequential chaotic iterations based PRNG},label=algo:seqCIprng} -\begin{lstlisting} -unsigned int CIprng() { - static unsigned int x = 123123123; - unsigned long t1 = xorshift(); - unsigned long t2 = xor128(); - unsigned long t3 = xorwow(); - x = x^(unsigned int)t1; - x = x^(unsigned int)(t2>>32); - x = x^(unsigned int)(t3>>32); - x = x^(unsigned int)t2; - x = x^(unsigned int)(t1>>32); - x = x^(unsigned int)t3; - return x; -} -\end{lstlisting} - - - - - -In listing~\ref{algo:seqCIprng} a sequential version of our chaotic iterations -based PRNG is presented. The xor operator is represented by -\textasciicircum. This function uses three classical 64-bits PRNG: the -\texttt{xorshift}, the \texttt{xor128} and the \texttt{xorwow}. In the -following, we call them xor-like PRNGSs. These three PRNGs are presented -in~\cite{Marsaglia2003}. As each xor-like PRNG used works with 64-bits and as -our PRNG works with 32-bits, the use of \texttt{(unsigned int)} selects the 32 -least significant bits whereas \texttt{(unsigned int)(t3$>>$32)} selects the 32 -most significants bits of the variable \texttt{t}. So to produce a random -number realizes 6 xor operations with 6 32-bits numbers produced by 3 64-bits -PRNG. This version successes the BigCrush of the TestU01 battery [P. L’ecuyer - and R. Simard. Testu01]. - -\section{Efficient prng based on chaotic iterations on GPU} - -In order to benefit from computing power of GPU, a program needs to define -independent blocks of threads which can be computed simultaneously. In general, -the larger the number of threads is, the more local memory is used and the less -branching instructions are used (if, while, ...), the better performance is -obtained on GPU. So with algorithm \ref{algo:seqCIprng} presented in the -previous section, it is possible to build a similar program which computes PRNG -on GPU. In the CUDA [ref] environment, threads have a local identificator, -called \texttt{ThreadIdx} relative to the block containing them. - - -\subsection{Naive version for GPU} - -From the CPU version, it is possible to obtain a quite similar version for GPU. -The principe consists in assigning the computation of a PRNG as in sequential to -each thread of the GPU. Of course, it is essential that the three xor-like -PRNGs used for our computation have different parameters. So we chose them -randomly with another PRNG. As the initialisation is performed by the CPU, we -have chosen to use the ISAAC PRNG [ref] to initalize all the parameters for the -GPU version of our PRNG. The implementation of the three xor-like PRNGs is -straightforward as soon as their parameters have been allocated in the GPU -memory. Each xor-like PRNGs used works with an internal number $x$ which keeps -the last generated random numbers. Other internal variables are also used by the -xor-like PRNGs. More precisely, the implementation of the xor128, the xorshift -and the xorwow respectively require 4, 5 and 6 unsigned long as internal -variables. - -\begin{algorithm} - -\KwIn{InternalVarXorLikeArray: array with internal variables of the 3 xor-like PRNGs in global memory\; -NumThreads: Number of threads\;} -\KwOut{NewNb: array containing random numbers in global memory} -\If{threadIdx is concerned by the computation} { - retrieve data from InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadIdx] in local variables\; - \For{i=1 to n} { - compute a new PRNG as in Listing\ref{algo:seqCIprng}\; - store the new PRNG in NewNb[NumThreads*threadIdx+i]\; - } - store internal variables in InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadIdx]\; -} - -\caption{main kernel for the chaotic iterations based PRNG GPU naive version} -\label{algo:gpu_kernel} -\end{algorithm} - -Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel} presents a naive implementation of PRNG using -GPU. According to the available memory in the GPU and the number of threads -used simultenaously, the number of random numbers that a thread can generate -inside a kernel is limited, i.e. the variable \texttt{n} in -algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel}. For example, if $100,000$ threads are used and -if $n=100$\footnote{in fact, we need to add the initial seed (a 32-bits number)} -then the memory required to store internals variables of xor-like -PRNGs\footnote{we multiply this number by $2$ in order to count 32-bits numbers} -and random number of our PRNG is equals to $100,000\times ((4+5+6)\times -2+(1+100))=1,310,000$ 32-bits numbers, i.e. about $52$Mb. - -All the tests performed to pass the BigCrush of TestU01 succeeded. Different -number of threads, called \texttt{NumThreads} in our algorithm, have been tested -upto $10$ millions. - -\begin{remark} -Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel} has the advantage to manipulate independent -PRNGs, so this version is easily usable on a cluster of computer. The only thing -to ensure is to use a single ISAAC PRNG. For this, a simple solution consists in -using a master node for the initialization which computes the initial parameters -for all the differents nodes involves in the computation. -\end{remark} - -\subsection{Improved version for GPU} - -As GPU cards using CUDA have shared memory between threads of the same block, it -is possible to use this feature in order to simplify the previous algorithm, -i.e. using less than 3 xor-like PRNGs. The solution consists in computing only -one xor-like PRNG by thread, saving it into shared memory and using the results -of some other threads in the same block of threads. In order to define which -thread uses the result of which other one, we can use a permutation array which -contains the indexes of all threads and for which a permutation has been -performed. In Algorithm~\ref{algo:gpu_kernel2}, 2 permutations arrays are used. -The variable \texttt{offset} is computed using the value of -\texttt{permutation\_size}. Then we can compute \texttt{o1} and \texttt{o2} -which represent the indexes of the other threads for which the results are used -by the current thread. In the algorithm, we consider that a 64-bits xor-like -PRNG is used, that is why both 32-bits parts are used. - -This version also succeed to the BigCrush batteries of tests. - -\begin{algorithm} - -\KwIn{InternalVarXorLikeArray: array with internal variables of 1 xor-like PRNGs in global memory\; -NumThreads: Number of threads\; -tab1, tab2: Arrays containing permutations of size permutation\_size\;} - -\KwOut{NewNb: array containing random numbers in global memory} -\If{threadId is concerned} { - retrieve data from InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadId] in local variables\; - offset = threadIdx\%permutation\_size\; - o1 = threadIdx-offset+tab1[offset]\; - o2 = threadIdx-offset+tab2[offset]\; - \For{i=1 to n} { - t=xor-like()\; - shared\_mem[threadId]=(unsigned int)t\; - x = x $\oplus$ (unsigned int) t\; - x = x $\oplus$ (unsigned int) (t>>32)\; - x = x $\oplus$ shared[o1]\; - x = x $\oplus$ shared[o2]\; - - store the new PRNG in NewNb[NumThreads*threadId+i]\; - } - store internal variables in InternalVarXorLikeArray[threadId]\; -} - -\caption{main kernel for the chaotic iterations based PRNG GPU efficient version} -\label{algo:gpu_kernel2} -\end{algorithm} - - - -\section{Experiments} - -Differents experiments have been performed in order to measure the generation speed. -\begin{figure}[t] -\begin{center} - \includegraphics[scale=.5]{curve_time_gpu.pdf} - -\end{center} -\caption{Number of random numbers generated per second} -\label{fig:time_naive_gpu} -\end{figure} - -First of all we have compared the time to generate X random numbers with both the CPU version and the GPU version. - -Faire une courbe du nombre de random en fonction du nombre de threads, éventuellement en fonction du nombres de threads par bloc. \section{Conclusion}