+1
On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Joshua Ladd
wrote:
> What: Add an internal random number generator to OPAL.
>
> Why: OMPI uses rand and srand all over the place. Because the middleware is
> mucking with the RNG’s global state, applications that use these library
> routines will not achieve r
+1.
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:23:41PM +, Joshua Ladd wrote:
>What: Add an internal random number generator to OPAL.
>
>
>
>Why: OMPI uses rand and srand all over the place. Because the middleware
>is mucking with the RNG's global state, applications that use these
>libr
alable and high quality
parallel RNG.
Josh
From: devel [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hargrove
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:31 PM
To: Open MPI Developers
Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Add an OPAL rand and srand
Joshua,
This is for ticket #2928, right?
-Paul
On
Joshua,
This is for ticket #2928, right?
-Paul
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Joshua Ladd wrote:
> What: Add an internal random number generator to OPAL.
>
>
>
> Why: OMPI uses rand and srand all over the place. Because the middleware
> is mucking with the RNG's global state, applications t
What: Add an internal random number generator to OPAL.
Why: OMPI uses rand and srand all over the place. Because the middleware is
mucking with the RNG's global state, applications that use these library
routines will not achieve reproducible results with the same seed.
How: I plan to put in an
