The Commander Developer’s Guide

Conventions

• Every module should start with from __future__ import division
• Commander imported as cm, NumPy as np, SciPy as sp, oomatrix as om, matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Random number generation

Each program typically need two RNGs: One that is guaranteed to be different between ranks (given the variable name nc_rng, for non-collective RNG), and one that has the same seed for every rank and is always called collectively (called c_rng).