Re: st: Re: mata->stata code

[Alden Klovdahl <Alden.Klovdahl@anu.edu.au>]

many thanks, kit.

... and the mata part is only one
part of the problem.

it is looking more and more like i will
have to break up the code, and do the
calcs on one of our supercompters here.

but, mata will be useful to me (and
others) i am sure for other problems.

take care, regards, al

Kit Baum wrote:

> According to mata help ml_limits, your matrix will require something  on 
> the order of 9.375 gigabytes ((64+20000000*60*8)/1024000).  Although 
> Mata will allow you to have over two billion rows and/or two  billion 
> columns in an array, you will need quite a bit of RAM to set  up this 
> matrix...
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Alden wrote:
>
>
> > basically, i would like to do some processing
> > - - fairly elementary - in mata, the results of
> > which would go into a 20m x 60 matrix/array
> > [20 million rows, 60 columns].  [the number of
> > columns in the array could be pruned to the ones
> > (two) i need for each run.]
>
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