# Parallel Mersenne Twister

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**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parallel-mersenne-twister/27567 "2019-08-15T02:33:13Z")\
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Counter-based RNGs (e.g. from [GitHub - JuliaRandom/Random123.jl: Julia implementation of Random123.](https://github.com/sunoru/Random123.jl)) also help a lot, in my experience, since they make it very easy to partition the RNG while still using a common seed.

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