Yes, both versions of teragen are completely deterministic. They each use a 
random number generator with a fixed seed. 

-- Owen

On Apr 14, 2012, at 1:53 PM, David Erickson <halcyon1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi we are doing some benchmarking of some of our infrastructure and
> are using TeraGen/TeraSort to do the benchmarking.  I am wondering if
> the data generated by TeraGen is deterministic, in that if I repeat
> the same experiment multiple times with the same configuration options
> if it will continue to generate and sort the exact same data?  And if
> not, is there an easy mod to make this happen?
> 
> Thanks!
> David

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