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- A direct application of this capability is in storing asparsematrix (a matrix populated
primarily with zeros). By only storing the non-zero entries as opposed to storing all entries,
it can yield huge savings in memory that can potentially speed up running time. - *NIX is often used to describe UNIX and other UNIX-like platforms, i.e., UNIX, BSD, and
GNU/Linux distributions. - For example, if a local installation of R exists, then a C program has access to all R’s pseudo-
random number generators via the inclusion of#include<R.h>at the beginning of the
C pseudo-code. - A cluster is a group of servers and other resources that act like a single system.
- An implementation in Stata is described in Drukker and Gates (2006).
- We would like to thank Jeffrey S. Racine for providing us with the necessary software to
run these experiments at Indiana University’s High Performance Clusters.
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