parallel

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

Install

For accessing SSC version of parallel

. ssc install parallel, replace
. mata mata mlib index

For 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 index

For Stata version <13, download as zip, unzip, and then replace the above -net install- with

. net install parallel, from(full_local_path_to_files) replace

Once 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.

Author

George G. Vega [aut,cre] gvegayon (at) caltech dot edu

Brian Quistorff [ctb]