SAS Information Retrieval Studio requires Python in the following range of versions: 2.6 <= Python version < 3.0. On Windows, it requires the ActiveState version of Python. On UNIX platforms, the generic version of Python is appropriate. The software is available at the following Web site:
SAS High-Performance Analytics Grid Installation and SAS High-Performance Management Console will not run properly if Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled. Ensure that SELinux is disabled on the machine where these two products are to be installed.
The SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded and multi-core server hardware (typically quad core or higher) is recommended. A dedicated machine for the SAS Metadata Server is recommended to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics, but is not required. 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 8GB of RAM is sufficient for most large deployments. 4GB of RAM is sufficient for many deployments and should be considered a minimum unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.
If you choose to put your SAS Metadata Server on the same machine as your SAS Visual Analytics Server machine, the Linux for x64 operating systems are limited to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
SAS Visual Analytics is supported only on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.1.
SAS Visual Analytics supports the following Web browsers:
In addition, SAS Visual Analytics requires Adobe Flash Player 10.3.