> How do you know you are only using one processor?
I'm watching the task manager as it's running. The Stata process only uses 13% of the CPU which is approximately 1/8 of 100%.
> The bootstrap is not parallelized, but each iteration of the
> estimation should be.
This begs the question, are there some Stata commands that are built to run on multiple processors and some that aren't? I would've thought, if any, bootstrap would work on multiple processors.
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Cohen, Elan<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm running StataMP on a Windows server running XP. The
> computer has a Quad core processor, so 8 processors show up
> in the task manager (due to hyper threading, I believe).
> >
> > However, if I run a command, such as bootstrap, Stata will
> only allocate 1 processor to do the job.
>
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