Stata for Linux

[Muhammad Ramzan]

Hi all

Is the Stata software available for Linux supercomputers or not? if yes how much faster and more efficient it is to the Stata on a normal computer?

Thanks

[Daniel Feenberg]

Statamp is available for up to 64 cores, but on a single server instance. That is a big computer, but not the supercomputer you are talking about. There is a document (https://www.stata.com/statamp/report.pdf) on the Stata website showing the amount of improvement for each procedure. Briefly, the throughput of econometric tasks are very much sped up, but the improvement is less than proportionate to the number of cores. Data management tasks are mostly not affected. Packages such as Gtools (https://gtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) are likely more of a help than any hardware for data management. There is a user contributed module https://github.com/gvegayon/parallel that will help spread a single Stata .do file across multiple servers, which would appropriate for some procedures in a supercomputer setting. Here at NBER we use an 8-core version of Statamp while dealing with hundreds of millions of Medicare records. Memory is more of an issue than speed but care is sometimes required to get back results in a reasonable time. I have some suggestions at http://www.nber.org/stata/efficient