[petsc-users] SPRNG package

[Hong]

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

Shall we remove this comment?
Hong

>
> >> 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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