The SPD
Server name server gives system administrators the ability to manage
computing resources without disturbing system users. The SPD Server
name server maps logical names that are referenced in SAS programs
to the physical location of SPD Server tables. Thus, a name server
allows the system administrator to add, remove or reallocate disk
space and computing power without having to change SAS source code.
Nor is there the necessity of informing others about changes in resource
allocation as long the name of the machine that hosts the name service
remains the same.
The following
example demonstrates how to configure SPD Server to spread the processing
load across multiple machines in a network.