diff --git a/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp b/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
index 69b01e48..143e7350 100644
--- a/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
+++ b/eo/test/mpi/parallelApply.cpp
@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     MpiNode::init( argc, argv );
 
     vector<int> v;
-    v.push_back(1);
-    v.push_back(3);
-    v.push_back(3);
-    v.push_back(7);
-    v.push_back(42);
-
+    for( int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i )
+    {
+        v.push_back( rand() );
+    }
+    
     int offset = 0;
     vector<int> originalV = v;
 
@@ -140,3 +139,4 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     }
     return 0;
 }
+