The rocRAND project provides functions that generate pseudorandom and quasirandom numbers. The rocRAND library is implemented in the HIP programming language and optimized for AMD's latest discrete GPUs. It is designed to run on top of AMD's ROCm runtime, but it also works on CUDA-enabled GPUs.

Prior to ROCm version 5.0, this project included the hipRAND wrapper. As of version 5.0, it was split into a separate library. As of version 6.0, hipRAND can no longer be built from rocRAND.

• CMake (3.16 or later)
• C++ compiler with C++17 support to build the library.
  • Recommended to use at least gcc 9
  • clang uses the development headers and libraries from gcc, so a recent version of it must still be installed when compiling with clang
• C++ compiler with C++11 support to consume the library.
• For AMD platforms:
  • ROCm (1.7 or later)
  • HIP-clang compiler, which must be set as C++ compiler on ROCm platform.
• For CUDA platforms:
  • HIP
  • Latest CUDA SDK
• Python 3.6 or higher (HIP on Windows only, only required for install script)
• Visual Studio 2019 with clang support (HIP on Windows only)
• Strawberry Perl (HIP on Windows only)