We've been using Mersenne Twist (mtwist) for a long time with very good
luck. We can get the same random numbers across platforms and in parallel.
VERY handy.
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/mtwist.html
Derek
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Derek Gaston wrote:
>
> in our Python GetPot parser (yes, we have our very own because the
>> official one is not great).
>>
>
> Oh - in that case I should warn/inform you of another new feature: I
> did also add a bunch of new DBE options, for cmath functions and
> rand/srand. That should be even easier for you to port over, though.
>
> One thing I'm still thinking about w.r.t. the above: I'd like our PRNG
> based results to be completely portable for reproduceability reasons,
> but calling cmath rand(), the implementation is system-dependent.
> Anyone know what the state of the art is for simple-as-possible
> rand()-API-compatible PRNG algorithms, something we could just put
> straight into getpot.h?
> ---
> Roy
>
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