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Revision as of 12:17, 16 March 2017
Introduction
STATA comprises a complete software package, offering statistical tools for data analysis, data management and graphics. On the local HPC System we offer a multiprocessor variant of STATA/MP 13, licensed for up to 12 cores. The license allows up to 5 users to work with STATA at the same time. STATA/MP uses the paradigm of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) to benefit from the parallel capabilities offered by many modern computers and HPC systems to speed up computations.
Installed version
The currently installed version of STATA is 13.0.
Using Stata on the HPC cluster
Like every module on the cluster, STATA can be loaded by typing
module load stata
Then you can find the following STATA variants in your user environment:
- stata: a version of STATA that handles small datasets
- stata-se: a version of STATA for large datasets
- stata-mp: a fast version of STATA for multicore/multiprocessor machines
More details on the different version can be found here
To facilitate bookkeeping, a good first step towards using STATA on the HPC system is to create a directory in which all STATA related computations are carried out. Using the command
mkdir stata
you might thus create the folder stata in the top level of your home directory for this purpose (you might even go further and create a subdirectory mp13 specifying the precise version of STATA).
Submitting a job
Since there many people working with the HPC cluster, its important that everyone has an equal chance to do so. Therefore, every job should be processed by SLURM.
For this reason, you have to create a jobscript for your tasks. You will learn how to submit variant types of STATA jobs in the following text paragraphs.
Single-slot variant
You might submit your STATA do-file using a job script similar to the script listed below:
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --mem=2G
#SBATCH --time=0-2:00
#SBATCH --job-name STATA-TEST
#SBATCH --output=STATA-test.%j.out
#SBATCH --error=stata-test.%j.err
module load stata
stata -b YOURINPUT.FILE
In this file, we are specifiying the needed resources for our job. Since this is just an example, you will probably have to adjust these values for you real jobs.
Multi-slot variant
Documentation
An user guide for STATA in version 13 can be found here (PDF-Viewer required!).
