PARALLEL: Stata module for parallel computing
Parallel lets you run Stata faster, sometimes faster than MP itself. By organizing your job in several Stata instances, parallel allows you to work with out-of-the-box parallel computing. Using the the 'parallel' prefix, you can get faster simulations, bootstrapping, reshaping big data, etc. without having to know a thing about parallel computing. With no need of having Stata/MP installed on your computer, parallel has showed to dramatically speedup computations up to two, four, or more times depending on how many processors your computer has.
Stata conference presentation: http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/norl13/4.html
SSC at Boston College: http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457527.html
For accessing SSC version of parallel
. ssc install parallel, replace
. mata mata mlib indexFor accessing the latest development version of parallel (from here) using Stata version >=13
. net install parallel, from(https://raw.github.com/gvegayon/parallel/master/) replace
. mata mata mlib indexFor Stata version <13, download as zip, unzip, and then replace the above -net install- with
. net install parallel, from(full_local_path_to_files) replaceOnce installed it is suggested to restart Stata. If you had a previous installation of -parallel- installed from a different source you should uninstall that first.
George G. Vega [aut,cre] gvegayon (at) caltech dot edu
Brian Quistorff [ctb]