StataCorp Stata MP Overview
Stata/MP lets you analyze data in one-half to two-thirds the time compared with Stata/SE on inexpensive dual-core laptops and in one-quarter to one-half the time on quad-core desktops and laptops. Stata/MP runs even faster on multiprocessor servers. Stata/MP supports up to 64 cores/processors.Stata/SE can analyze up to 2 billion observations. Stata/MP can analyze 10 to 20 billion observations on the largest computers currently available and is ready to analyze up to 1 trillion observations once computer hardware catches up. Stata/MP also allows 120,000 variables compared to 32,767 variables allowed by Stata/SE.
Some procedures are not parallelized and some are inherently sequential, meaning they run the same speed in Stata/MP. For a complete assessment of Stata/MP's performance, including command-by-command statistics.
Stata/MP is the multiprocessor and multicore version of Stata. It's primary purpose is to run faster. Most of the new features in Stata have been parallelized to run faster on Stata/MP, sometimes much faster.
Features of StataCorp Stata MP
Bayesian multilevel models
Panel-data tobit with random co-efficients
Multilevel regression for interval-censored data
Multilevel tobit regression for censored data
Panel-data cointegration tests
Tests for multiple breaks in time series
Multiple-group SEM for continuous, binary, ordered, and count outcomes
Multiple-group multilevel SEM
ICD-10-CM/PCS
Power analysis for cluster randomized designs
Power analysis for linear regression models
Heteroskedastic linear regression
Poisson with sample selection
Zero-inflated ordered probit
Add your own power and sample-size methods
Transparency on graphs
Stream random-number generator
System Requirements and Technical Details
To run Stata/MP, you can use a desktop computer with a dual-core or quad-core processor, or you can use a server with multiple processors. Whether a computer has separate processors or one processor with multiple cores makes no difference. More processors or cores make Stata/MP run faster.