On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:09:41 AM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote: > Another way would be to just initialize a `MersenneTwister` stream > on each process, and seed them differently. Since the streams are > process local, there shouldn't be any communication overhead, and > streams with different seeds should be independent.
My understanding is that streams with different seeds are not guaranteed to be independent, but there are some RNGs for which they are. --Gray
