Hello,
I have two questions concerning Random Number Generators (RNG) implementated in FlexSim:
1) What type of RNG is implemented in FlexSim?
2) Is it possible to manually enter the seed for RNG in FlexSim? If it is possible - where can I find the right option?
Regards,
Jack
What type of RNG is implemented in FlexSim?
@anthony.johnson addressed this question in a May 13, 2009 post on our old forum:
https://www.flexsim.com/community/forum/showthread.php?p=4318
Flexsim uses a prime modulus multiplicative linear congruential generator (PMMLCG), as described in Law and Kelton chapter 7.
Anthony also added an update in 2011:
https://www.flexsim.com/community/forum/showthread.php?t=1687&p=7839
For version 5, in addition to the Prime Modulus Multiplicative Linear Congruential Generator described here, we added an optional Combined MRG, which is implemented based on appendix 7B of Averill Law's 4th Edition. By default, however, Flexsim still uses the PMMLCG.
If there is anything in Anthony's description that is now out of date, the dev team may chime in below. If they don't, please consider Anthony's answer as the current correct answer.
Is it possible to manually enter the seed for RNG in FlexSim?
As noted by @Mischa Spelt:
...if you want to manually initialize the random streams you can use the randinit command.
Note that the release notes for FlexSim 6 (March 2012) state: "Added a new random number generator to generate seeds based on the replication number for the existing random number generator. Email support if you need a script to initialize the streams of a particular model back to the values used in prior versions." I am not sure whether this affects all random number generation or just that in the Experimenter though.
Within the interactive FlexSim session, it initializes the streams based on the replication number specified in the experimenter's Advanced tab (replication 1 by default).
For the answer to the first question you will have to wait for a developer to reply, but if you want to manually initialize the random streams you can use the randinit command.
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