On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:21:29 -0500, Thomas Wiecki <thomas_wie...@brown.edu> 
wrote:
> I am currently revisiting this but having some problems with the
> random number generator.
> 
> generator.generators_per_block is 512 on my card, so I initialize 512
> generators, but I see that some of them don't produce random numbers
> when sampling from them. I notice that in some subtle ways (mainly
> that the distribution is not correct or all numbers are the same) if I
> sample from more than 300-350 generators (always the last ones are
> affected),  but it's fine when using e.g. 128. So it seems I can only
> use a smaller number of generators than what the card says I should be
> able to use.
> 
> Any idea on why that might be or how to investigate this further?

Mysterious. What generator is this using? XORWOW? Tomasz, any ideas?

Andreas

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