Why The Results of Parallel and Serial Monte Carlo Simulations May Differ

2011/04/01 by Boris D. Lubachevsky, Lubachevsky, Boris D.
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithms and Data Compression #Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #Theoretical and Computational Physics #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1104.0198

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Abstract

Parallel Monte Carlo simulations often expose faults in random number generators

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