Re: st: Best machine to build for running STATA

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

  Two factors come to my mind as being very important...

  1) Having sufficient memory. This has been discussed today on the 
statalist, with links to how you can calculate your memory needs.
  2) Whether you will be using Stata/MP, and how many cores you want to 
get (both for your Stata/MP license and physical cores). For large 
statistical models, you can save considerable time running models on 
four cores, for example. This link contains a detailed report showing 
the time savings one gets using Stata/MP, and how much time savings you 
obtain for each additional core you add for each command.

http://www.stata.com/statamp/report.pdf

  These are not the only factors, but I feel they are among the major 
factors.

I hope this helps,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-02-22 2.27 PM, Dana Chandler wrote:
> Hi fellow Statalisters -
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or guidelines for what
> would be the ideal type of machine to build for intensive STATA-use.
>
> In particular, if you wanted to be able to run saturated regression
> models on large (several gigabyte) data sets in STATA, what would the
> ideal set up be? This is a computer that will be used exclusively for
> data-intensive tasks and mostly with STATA.
>
> The only requirement is that it has to be built on a windows x86
> operating system. What type of hardware makes for the speediest STATA
> experience: harddrive type, RAM type, number of processors, etc. ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dana
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