Re: st: RE: Efficient parallel computing in Stata/MP

[Demian Panigo <panigo@gmail.com>]

Yes Daniel......
Thanks.... is my "try-and-error" time.
But your advice has been very important.
Thanks again
Demian

2013/9/27 Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>:
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013, Demian Panigo wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much Daniel:
>> Just one more question.
>> You finally used 24 cores (cores and hypercores) to run 3 parallel
>> Stata MP/8 jobs with interesting time saving outcomes.
>> But, did you compared these results with those obtained by just run 24
>> parallel Stata SE jobs in, for example, batch mode?
>
>
> No, but in other experiments I found that the wall clock time for a large
> (many observations and many variables) -reg- in Stata/MP8 is one eigth the
> time for Stata/SE. This is close to the result reported by Stata - they do
> find some fall-off as the number of cores increases.
>
> You should experiment.
>
> Dan Feenberg
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Demian T. Panigo
Lic. en Economía, UNLP,
Master en Cs Sociales, UBA,
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