Stata/MP is the multiprocessor version of Stata, used for modelling and analysis of large datasets, predominantly in social sciences.
Stata/MP is available as the 2-core version on our HPC facilities as part of our University licensing agreement. It is available to all users.
You can run Stata MP on Comet in batch mode - recommended for scripting users, or when using multiple servers:
Load the “Stata” module
$ module load Stata
Using Stata/MP in interactive mode (Note that interactive mode only supports the use of limited hardware resources, so batch mode is recommended)
$ stata-mp
Remember that intensive or long running tasks should not be run on the Comet login nodes, so limit your interactive use to short test cases only.
To use Stata/MP in batch mode and run a Stata do-file job, add the following command in your Slurm SBATCH file
module load Stata
stata-mp -b mydofile.do
Then you can submit the job normally using the sbatch command. If doing so, remember that the license for Stata/MP restricts it to two CPU cores maximum.