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| Understanding SAS Grid Servers |
The Role of the SAS Grid Server in the SAS Intelligence Platform
You will use the SAS Grid Server only if your company has purchased the SAS Grid Manager software application. This software enables you to build a compute grid that can execute grid-enabled jobs that are created in SAS Data Integration Studio or to execute SAS Enterprise Miner or grid-enabled programs.
Either SAS Data Integration Studio or SAS Enterprise Miner submits a grid-enabled job to a workspace server (through its object spawner) that is running on a grid-control machine. SAS/CONNECT and Platform LSF (or another middleware provider) are also installed on this grid-control machine. Platform LSF starts SAS/CONNECT servers on the appropriate grid nodes. Then SAS/CONNECT statements in the job cause portions of the job to be submitted to the remote SAS/CONNECT servers for execution.
The SAS Grid Server enables Platform LSF to start SAS/CONNECT servers on the grid node. It provides Platform LSF with the command to start the servers, and it provides the script that the command submits.
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