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SAS® High-Performance Risk 4.5

Overview

This document has been updated to reflect the requirements to deploy this SAS software along with SAS 9.4M9 (TS1M9), which was generally available in 2025.

To keep pace with changes to third-party technologies, SAS has adopted a general policy of supporting one or more baseline major versions and subsequent minor updates for each officially supported operating system. As part of this policy, SAS strongly encourages customers to install the latest operating-system service packs. Only the supported baseline major versions are listed in this document.

The full SAS Support policy governing third-party software can be found at SAS Third-Party Software Requirements - Baseline and Later Support.

SAS High-Performance Risk ships with SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting, and both solutions must be installed at the same time.

Anti-Virus Software

Third-party anti-virus, anti-spyware, endpoint-protection, and system-monitoring software can interfere with SAS applications and can block files. For more information about the official guidance from SAS Technical Support, see the Anti-Virus section of the SAS Foundation System Requirements document that corresponds to the operating system where you are deploying SAS.

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Risk Server

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SAS High-Performance Risk Server includes two optional SAS/ACCESS engines of choice for transactional data purposes, as available per platform.

SAS High-Performance Risk Server also includes three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice (plus General Industry Standards, which is included automatically).

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server

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SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice for transactional data, as available per platform. Select the same engine as the solution ACCESS engine.

Note: Both the Distributed Mode and Non-distributed Mode of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server include a Non-distributed Mode SAS LASR Analytic Server. However, only the Distributed Mode of SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes the Distributed Mode SAS LASR Analytic Server.

SAS recommends installing SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server on a separate machine.

SAS LASR Analytic Server (Distributed LASR) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation
  • SAS Plug-ins for Hadoop


Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 8.10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Oracle Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (64-bit version) with SP3 on the x64 chip family

Use of a co-located Hadoop File System (HDFS) is optional, but it requires a supported Hadoop environment and SAS Plug-ins for Hadoop (which are included with your license). For information about supported Hadoop distributions, refer to SAS 9.4: Support for Hadoop. The plug-ins require additional configuration. For more information, see the SAS High-Performance Analytics Infrastructure 3.9: Installation and Configuration Guide.

SAS Metadata Server

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SAS Metadata Server software is included with Base SAS on this machine.

SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

  • a 64-bit host system
  • a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
  • multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
  • four or more cores for production deployments

The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.

SAS Data Servers

SAS High-Performance Risk contains the SAS High-Performance Risk Data Server, which requires additional configuration.

The size of the data server is medium.

Note: When you configure your software, the size of each data server must be considered.

Before you install, update, or add products and solutions that result in the deployment of one or more SAS data servers to the same machine, kernel parameter changes for shared memory and semaphores are required. For details about configuration of small, medium, and large data servers, see Tuning the PostgreSQL Data Server in SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Administration SAS Web Applications: Tuning for Performance and Scalability.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Risk Mid-Tiers

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SAS Visual Analytics and Reporting Mid-Tier

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SAS recommends installing SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier on a separate machine.

Web Application Servers

When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.

To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.

Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS High-Performance Risk Clients

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SAS Visual Analytics Apps for iOS or Android

The SAS Visual Analytics Apps are supported on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Each app is written specifically for its operating system and provides native support for these devices so that you can view reports on your mobile device. You can download the apps for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play.

SAS recommends using the SAS Visual Analytics Apps for iOS or Android to view and interact with reports on mobile devices.

SAS AppDev Studio

Refer to the SAS AppDev Studio system requirements for the latest information about its requirements.

Web Browsers

For a list of web browsers that are supported for the user interfaces, refer to the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers page.


Third-Party Software

SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.

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