diff --git a/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp b/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
index 143e7350..46130b80 100644
--- a/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
+++ b/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 
     MpiNode::init( argc, argv );
 
+    srand( time(0) );
     vector<int> v;
     for( int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i )
     {