<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:36 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk" target="_blank">Graeme.Winter@diamond.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quick nag if I may… if people have tests which employ random inputs (e.g. random unit cell, random amplitudes and phases) please could they set a seed or select from some seeds which should give random values which work, or fix their tests
so that all random values work (ideally!)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That way when tests fail people know something is wrong, rather than everything is fine but the random values drawn are troublesome…</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. We have a large set of tests in the separate phenix_regression directory that are machine-specific but anything that's part of the CCTBX repository needs to be portable. (And ideally, this should include most of the CCTBX-only tests.) The test errors as of a couple of nights ago are here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/show_error_summary.cgi?build_tag=2014_09_14_2205">http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/show_error_summary.cgi?build_tag=2014_09_14_2205</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>At least one of these appears to be systematic but there are several purely numeric differences on specific platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nat</div></div></div></div>