[R] set random numbers seed for different cpu's

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 17 21:31:23 CET 2011


http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator

In all seriousness, you could set the seed differently on each machine
after putting jobs through Torque (i.e., as part of the batch script,
maybe using some piece of hardware id you can get through system()
somehow or other: possibly network id?) and you're very,very,very,very
likely to get different results.

Michael

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:30 AM, fantomas <tomas.iesmantas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running the same R script (throuth linux shell)  of several cpu's. This
> R program uses random numbers and the result should be different every time.
> But if put jobs (through Torque) for several cpu's I get the same result. As
> a resealt my program saves numbers in file with randomly generated names.
> works like a charm on one cpu, but I get the same result from different
> cpu's.
> So my question is, how can I resolve this? How to set pseudo random number
> seed so that different cpu's would produce different results?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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