The list of currently installed software on the cluster. If you wish to have additional software installed, please email econcluster@umd.edu.

Currently updating to reflect new OS refresh. –2024/11/11 bpmcln

To run a pre-written python script, type

python script.py

To install a library that doesn't come with the initial installation, you first need to create a virtual environment (where $NAME is what you choose to name your virtual environment)

python -m venv $NAME

after creating, activate the environment

source environment_name/bin/activate

(you should now see the environment on the far left of the terminal line). After that, you can simply install any library using pip from the command line

pip install pandas

You can also run a .do file in batch mode with

stata-mp -b do dofile.do

To allow your do-file to continue running when you log off from your terminal, preface the command with “nohup”. For example:

nohup stata-mp -b do dofile.do &

For more information on how to run your Stata command in the background, see Managing Jobs

By default, Stata saves tempfiles (from -tempfile- or -preserve-) to /nfs/home/$USERNAME/stata-tmp/. If you would like Stata to save temporary files in a new location (e.g. $HOME/statatmp) then from the command-line execute the follow before executing Stata:

export STATATMP=$HOME/statatmp 

One reason you might want to do this is that files are removed from /home/stata-tmp/ if they haven't been touched for a day. If you have a Stata process that runs for longer this may cause problems with reading from tempfiles or -restore-.

If you are using extra packages on your home/work computer and need them installed on the cluster, you can install them via ssc:

ssc install outreg

You will then have a folder installed within your home directory called “ado”, which contains your new commands filed away.