parallel: A command for parallel computing

George G. Vega Yon () and Brian Quistorff
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George G. Vega Yon: University of Southern California

Stata Journal, 2019, vol. 19, issue 3, 667-684

Abstract: The parallel package allows parallel processing of tasks that are not interdependent. This allows all flavors of Stata to take advantage of multiprocessor machines. Even Stata/MP users can benefit because many community-contributed programs are not automatically parallelized but could be under our framework.

Keywords: parallel; parallel initialize; parallel numprocessors; parallel do; parallel bs; parallel sim; parallel append; parallel clean; parallel version; paral- lel printlog; parallel viewlog; parallel computing; simulations; high performance computing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1536867X19874242

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