st: Hardware environments for STATA manipulation of large datasets

["Anirudh V. S. Ruhil" <ruhil@ohio.edu>]

There may have been some traffic about a particular element or the other of 
my question, but nevertheless ...

We are working with extremely large datafiles (hitting 6 million obs with 
only partial list of covariates attached), and our usual academic P4 
puppies with 512MB RAM, Win XP, and Stata 9 are simply unable to do a 
thing. Many of you have run into similar issues in the past and so may be 
able to tell me when you did step out to buy new hardware and software, 
what exactly were the key specs, what platform, etc. did you find useful. 
Moving off Win XP is not an issue so be bold.

thanks in advance

Ani
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