SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

SAS High-Performance Analytics Product

Integration

The SAS High-Performance Analytics portfolio supports many SAS solutions and

products. Some SAS products are integrated with SAS Grid Manager and (to some

extent) other high-performance analytics products in order to take advantage of parallel

processing.

SAS Enterprise Guide:

SAS Enterprise Guide executes as a SAS client and provides a front end to SAS

servers to execute SAS programs. Users create programs that take advantage of the

parallel processing capabilities in Base SAS (for example, thread-enabled procedures

and stored processes). SAS Enterprise Guide can detect whether SAS Grid Manager

is managing the environment to provide workload balancing, resource assignment,

and job prioritization. SAS Enterprise Guide can run Process Flow branches in

parallel on different grid nodes. It enables parallel execution of tasks on the same

server, and you can run tasks at the project or individual level in a SAS Grid

Manager environment. See the SAS Enterprise Guide for details.

SAS Data Integration Studio

SAS Data Integration Studio runs on the SAS Data Integration Server and

automatically takes advantage of grid computing if SAS Grid Manager is installed.

SAS Data Integration Studio 3.4 was enhanced to automatically generate SAS

applications that are enabled to execute on a SAS Grid Manager managed grid. Users

can produce grid-enabled SAS applications without any programming knowledge or

knowledge of the underlying grid infrastructure.

These SAS applications detect the existence of a SAS Grid Manager environment at

run time and distribute the execution accordingly. These grid-enabled applications

can be saved as SAS stored processes and subsequently executed by the SAS

Intelligence Platform components including SAS Web Report Studio, SAS

Information Map Studio, and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. (These

applications need SAS BI or SAS Enterprise BI servers, which depend on SAS

Foundation).

SAS Data Integration Studio can execute with in-memory products SAS High-

Performance Analytics Server and SAS Visual Analytics Server configured with the

SAS Intelligence Platform as an MPP environment, which is always threaded. SAS

Data Integration Studio provides High-Performance Analytics transformations for

SAS LASR Analytic Servers or HDFS. NOTHREADS and CPUCOUNT options

have no effect. See the SAS Data Integration Studio: User’s Guide for details. The

SAS Data Integration Server is administered as part of the SAS Intelligence

Platform.

SAS Risk Dimensions

The iterative workflow in SAS Risk Dimensions is similar to that in SAS Data

Integration Studio; they both execute the same analysis over different subsets of the

data. This workflow makes them ideal for taking advantage of SAS Grid Manager to

distribute the processing across the grid. For more information, see SAS Risk

Dimensions User’s Guide.

SAS Enterprise Miner

SAS Enterprise Miner can automatically generate SAS applications that are enabled

to execute on a SAS Grid Manager grid. These SAS applications detect the presence

of a SAS Grid Manager environment at run time and distribute the execution

218 Chapter 13 • Support for Parallel Processing