Using Stata on a Cluster

So I use Stata for things.  Sometimes I have to (my job, other programs I get), sometimes I like to (survival, LDA, mixed effects models).  I also like doing things on clusters, and sometimes in parallel.  These don’t always mix, but if you use in your Stata code

local taskid : env SGE_TASK_ID

then you can do (embarrassingly) parallel computing!

with a shell script like, where ZZ is the number of things you want to run:

#!/bin/bash 

#$ -t 1-ZZ

stata -b do Stata_Script.do