Hillel Alpert wrote:
>>I am thinking of a high performance research cluster of high-speed dual processor computers, tied together with the LINUX operating system. I gather that Stata/MP is the version needed. Does anyone know whether gllamm would benefit? I am finding that it is otherwise impossible to use with a large data set.<<
I'm guessing it's not easily parallelized.
There are a lot of tricks to speed up -gllamm-. You may want to try these. For example if you have categorical data, aggregating to to response patterns rather than individual observations often helps a lot, though if you have a large number of variables that might not provide much simplification. Related, you can often transform a problem from one representation to another and cut down on the effective N. Getting good starting values helps A LOT. This can often be done by fitting simpler models either inside -gllamm- or with other Stata procedures such as -xtmixed-, -xtmelogit- or -xtmepoisson-. No question, though, -gllamm- is not speedy on a big dataset.
Jay
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