Installing Third-Party Products

Installing Platform Suite for SAS

This section discusses Platform Suite for SAS. Specifically, these topics are covered:

If you will use products from Platform Computing Incorporated either for scheduling or for grid computing, you must install several of the products from the Platform Suite for SAS offering. Platform Suite for SAS includes three products:

Platform Process Manager: provides scheduling capabilities. Process Manager submits jobs to Platform LSF and manages dependencies between jobs.
Platform LSF (Load Sharing Facility): manages resource requirements and provides for load balancing.
Platform Grid Management Service: includes a monitoring daemon that enables administrators to monitor the load on machines running Platform LSF.

Where to Install Platform Suite for SAS

If you are interested in using the Platform Suite for SAS to perform scheduling tasks for objects like SAS Data Integration Studio jobs or SAS Web Report Studio reports, then you must install Platform Process Manager on the machine that you want to use as your scheduling server. When you install Platform Process Manager, Platform LSF will be installed as well.

If you will be using the Platform Suite for SAS for grid computing, you must install Platform LSF and the Platform Grid Management Service. If you want to schedule jobs to run on the grid, you must install Platform Process Manager as well. For information about where to install each of these products, see SAS Grid Topology in Grid Computing in SAS.

Install Platform Suite for SAS

Platform Suite for SAS is distributed with SAS. You install these products directly from the SAS Software Depot, using the installation instructions and installation programs that reside in your depot under the third_party directory.

You can also find the Platform Suite for SAS installation instructions on the SAS Scalability and Performance focus area on the Web at http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/gridinstall.html.

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