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Re: [Help-gsl] Usage of GSL random in parallel code [OpenMP]
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Rhys Ulerich |
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Re: [Help-gsl] Usage of GSL random in parallel code [OpenMP] |
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Mon, 5 May 2014 08:40:28 -0500 |
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Klaus Huthmacher
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> sorry, but I do not get your point. Could you elaborate on it in more detail?
Sure. If there's not much other work going on, how fast one can
generate random numbers may become a bottleneck. If all the generator
state is sitting contiguous in memory, it is possible that there will
be cache contention amongst threads on a multicore system.
- Rhys