Beowulf Questions

[Florent.Calvayrac]

> 
> This is trivial.  Once you get a good a serial pseudo-random number
> generator, you can use a cluster to generate more.

Sorry to disagree here, but you forget that you can not be sure
that the initial seed on one of the machines will not
be generated by another one...so you can end up with
completely correlated series. Check "scalable parallel number
generator" (sprng), working well for us, using different
recurrence formulas on different machines.




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