[petsc-users] SPRNG package

[Gideon Simpson]

Ok, but if I look at 

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-dev/src/sys/classes/random/impls/sprng/sprng.c

there is a comment:

   This is NOT currently using a parallel random number generator. Sprng does have
   an MPI version we should investigate.


-gideon

> On Dec 11, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Hong <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Gideon:
> I was looking at the source files and noticed in the comments that when petsc is built with sprng, the petsc interface isn’t to the parallel sprng RNG.  But is the package built with MPI, so that I could manually use the parallel RNG?
> Petsc- sprng-1.0 interface was written many years ago. 
> It is for parallel computation. Students contributed an example at
> petsc/src/sys/classes/random/examples/tutorials/ex2.c
> 
> Very few users have ever used this interface.
> If you encounter any problem, please report to us.
> 
> Hong
> 

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