Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kahn@physics.unc.edu (Dan Kahn)
Subject: Rand number advise on PVM
Organization: UNC Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Date: 16 Sep 1995 19:37:38 GMT
Message-ID: <43f922$19gk@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>

I need to do use random numbers and I want to run my program on
several CPUs using PVM (on Cray t3d). 

It occured to me that if I use pseudo random numbers like I would in a
single CPU environment each CPU will simple generate the same sequence
of numbers.

Is there a prefered way (probably some type of seeding) to get each
CPU to generate a different sequence of numbers?

Thanks,
--dan


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