Using SAS Studio with a SAS Grid

SAS Studio can take advantage of the processing capabilities of a SAS Grid. The approach to take to add grid support depends on the edition of SAS Studio that you are using.

With all editions of SAS Studio, you can use the SAS/CONNECT GRDSVC_ENABLE, SIGNON, and RSUBMIT functions in your code to send the code to the grid. Use the GRDSVC_ENABLE function to identify the SAS/CONNECT session that should be sent to the grid, specify that session name in the SIGNON statement, and then submit the code to the session in the RSUBMIT statement.

For example, you could use the following code to specify processing on the grid:

%let rc=%sysfunc(grdsvc_enable(gridsess,server=SASApp));
options autosignon;
rsubmit gridsess wait=no;
    /* code to be processed on the grid */
endrsubmit;
waitfor gridsess;
signoff gridsess;

If you are using SAS Studio Enterprise Edition together with SAS Grid Manager, you can convert the SAS Studio workspace server to use grid load balancing. During the conversion process, you can choose to launch the workspace server either by the grid or by the object spawner on the least-used machine in the grid. After you convert the workspace server, the grid load-balanced server processes the SAS statements in SAS Studio. See Using SAS Grid Manager for Server Load Balancing for more information.

In order to run code from any edition of SAS Studio on the grid, you must have SAS Grid Manager licensed and Platform Computing’s LSF installed on the same machine as the SAS Studio workspace server.

You should modify the SAS Studio property metadata to specify that the application is grid capable. Identifying SAS Studio as grid capable enables you to associate grid options sets with the application. Grid options sets are collections of grid options, SAS options, and required resources that you can map to users and applications (in this case, SAS Studio). For more information, see Understanding Grid Options Sets.

To specify that SAS Studio is grid capable, use SAS Management Console to add the keyword isGridCapable:*SAS Studio Mid-Tier* to the metadata for the SAS Studio folder. See Specifying That an Application Is Grid Capable for complete instructions.