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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.Distributed and Parallel Processing with the SAS System
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Duration: 2.0 days CEUs: 1.2 | ||
| Available for on-site training or can be scheduled at any SAS training facility if demand warrants. |
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 machine using a script file
- connecting to a remote machine using a spawner
- using Remote Library Services to transparently access remote data
- submitting code to be processed on the remote machine
- examining remote SAS libraries
- redirecting the log and the output
- 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
- discussing as a group how these topics can benefit you and problems that you face in your environment
- scaling up-local to local
- scaling out-local to remote
- managing remote logs and output
- 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
- 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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