Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Add an OPAL rand and srand

2014-02-07 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
+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

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Add an OPAL rand and srand

2014-02-07 Thread Nathan Hjelm
+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

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Add an OPAL rand and srand

2014-02-07 Thread Joshua Ladd
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

Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: Add an OPAL rand and srand

2014-02-07 Thread Paul Hargrove
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