I want to generate a reproducible sequence of random numbers in parallel with OpenMP. I wrote a small code that creates for each thread its own RNG with different seed. But when I start generating random numbers in parallel, something strange happens. With uniform distribution I get reproducible results (rand()
here to generate same sequence of seeds whenever i launch the program), but with normal distribution i get different results!
My question: Why this might be happening? And how do I resolve this issue?
#include <iostream>
#include <random>
#include <omp.h>
int main() {
std::normal_distribution<> normal(0,1);
std::uniform_real_distribution<> uniform(0,1);
std::mt19937 *rng = new std::mt19937[omp_get_max_threads()];
for(int i = 0; i < omp_get_max_threads(); ++i) {
rng[i].seed(rand());
}
int N = 100;
double* arr = new double[N];
#pragma omp parallel for
for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
arr[i] = normal(rng[omp_get_thread_num()]);
}
for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
std::cout << arr[i] << std::endl;
}
delete[] arr;
delete[] rng;
return 0;
}
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