<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div> The default PETSc random number generator (on CPUs) PETSCRANDER48 is deterministic and should return the same random numbers independent of the underlying hardware and software. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> The manual page for PETSCRANDER48 indicates this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> As we are moving the PETSc docs to p<a href="http://Petsc.org" class="">etsc.org</a> there may be a bit of time before google again automatically finds the most appropriate page. At the moment google and duckduckgo seem terribly confused.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 28, 2021, at 8:31 PM, Mark Adams <<a href="mailto:mfadams@lbl.gov" class="">mfadams@lbl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Also, when I google function the Argonne web pages are not found (MIT seems to have mirrored this and that works).<div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Mark</div></div>
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