I've been trying to sample from multiple Stan models in parallel, and chains terminate unexpectedly every single time.

I tried all kinds of workarounds without any success, and eventually found the following bug report:

https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/issues/1169

Containers seemed like overkill; then I discovered `unname` and found that it worked! What a relief. I still have no idea *why* this is necessary ...

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Interactions between cmdstan instances through /proc · Issue #1169 · stan-dev/cmdstan

I have a weird issue on an HPC with SLURM where chains of one model crash when a different model that is running simultaneously finishes sampling. The weird part is that as a workaround I had to co...

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CmdStan 2.33.0!

This new release brings two new exciting features:
- a new Stan language type - tuples
- a new VI algorithm - Pathfinder.

The release also features some new functions - mostly related to tuples, and other minor improvements.

There are also a number of long-deprecated language features that have now become errors with this version.

For details, see the blog post: https://blog.mc-stan.org/2023/09/05/release-of-cmdstan-2-33/

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Release of CmdStan 2.33

We are very happy to announce that the 2.33.0 release of CmdStan is now available on GitHub! As usual, the release of CmdStan is accompanied by new releases of Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc3. A P…

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