parallel: A command for parallel computing

The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · 2019

The parallel package allows parallel processing of tasks that are not interdependent.

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1. Vega Yon, G. G.University of UtahiD
2. Quistorff, B.

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Abstract

The parallel package allows parallel processing of tasks that are not interdependent. This allows all flavors of Stata to take advantage of multiprocessor machines. Even Stata/MP users can benefit because many community-contributed programs are not automatically parallelized but could be under our framework.

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@article{VegaYon2019c,
  title = {parallel: A command for parallel computing},
  author = {{Vega Yon}, {George G.} and {Quistorff}, {Brian}},
  year = {2019},
  month = {9},
  journal = {The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata},
  volume = {19},
  number = {3},
  pages = {667–684},
  doi = {10.1177/1536867X19874242},
  url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1536867X19874242},
  issn = {1536-867X},
}

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