The SSCC now has Stata MP16 available on both Winstat and Linstat. While our standard Stata, MP2, can split its work between two processors, Stata MP16 can take advantage of up to 16 processors for a huge increase in performance. Use it whenever you have a Stata job that's taking a long time due to computations, such as mixed models or multiple imputation (unfortunately it can't help with loading large data sets). No need to change your do files, just how you run them.

Stata MP16 licenses are very expensive, so we have a limited number of them. If you are told all the licenses are in use you'll need to wait until one becomes available.

On Winstat, right-click on a do file and choose Execute StataMP 16 Batch Mode. Stata will not start its usual graphical user interface: it will simply run your do file and then quit. A log file with the same name as your do file will be created in the same directory as your do file automatically, but any log using commands will be honored as well. Please note that in accordance with the SSCC’s Server Usage Policy, Stata MP16 on Winstat will actually use 8 cores.

On Linstat, do files run using the stata and condor_stata commands will be run using Stata MP16, though some HTCondor servers only have 8 cores and Stata MP16 will automatically adapt accordingly. Typing xstata will run Stata with a single core so you can edit do files, review results, etc. without using a Stata MP16 license. If you need a graphical user interface and 16 cores, run xstata-mp but be sure to close the program as soon as you are done with it so the license is available to others.