Distributed and Parallel Processing with the SAS System

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Duration: 2.0 days
Course fee:
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CEUs: 1.2

This course teaches you how to use SAS/CONNECT software to execute your SAS applications across machines and operating systems. The processing can occur sequentially or in parallel.

Learn how to

distribute your SAS processing across platforms using remote library services
distribute data and programs to remote machines
take advantage of multiple processers on a single machine
manage remote tasks.

Who should attend

SAS programmers and analysts who work with large data sets, long-running programs, and cross-platform environments

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have completed the SAS Programming I: Essentials course or have at least six months of experience writing SAS programs. Specifically, you should be able to

understand file structures and write system commands to create and access files on your operating system
use a text editor
write DATA and PROC steps
understand error messages in the SAS log and debug your program
create a SAS data set from an external file
use a LIBNAME statement to access SAS data libraries
read a SAS data set using a SET statement
perform a simple merge using a MERGE statement.

Course Contents

Introduction to Distributed Processing and Parallel Processing

defining terms
examining distributed processing scenarios
examining parallel processing scenarios

Connecting to a Remote Host

connecting to a remote machine using a script file
connecting to a remote machine using a spawner

Accessing a Remote SAS Data Library

using Remote Library Services to transparently access remote data

Submitting Code to a Remote Machine

submitting code to be processed on the remote machine
examining remote SAS libraries
redirecting the log and the output

Transferring Data Between Machines

using the UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD procedures to transfer
SAS data libraries
SAS data sets
SAS catalogs and catalog entries
programs
raw data files transferring macro variables
from local machine to remote machine
from remote machine to local machine

Discussion

discussing as a group how these topics can benefit you and problems that you face in your environment

Parallel Processing Activities

scaling up-local to local
scaling out-local to remote

Managing Logs

managing remote logs and output

Managing Remote Tasks

displaying a list of executing asynchronous tasks
deleting an executing asynchronous task
monitoring the list of executing asynchronous tasks interactively through the SAS/CONNECT window

Discussion

discussing as a group how these topics can benefit you and problems that you face in your environment

Software

This course addresses Base SAS, SAS/CONNECT.

Course Materials

Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

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