In this course, you learn how to administer a SAS Grid Manager environment using the SAS Workload Orchestrator grid provider. After you complete this course, you will understand SAS Grid Manager concepts and terminology and have a grasp of the fundamentals of the SAS Grid Manager architecture. This will enable you to configure your grid to optimize the workloads of your users’ jobs, maximizing the throughput of the jobs, and consistently getting the results for decision making in a timely manner.
Learn how to
- Monitor and configure your grid using SAS Workload Orchestrator Web Interface.
- Create new queues..
- Define time-based settings to control job execution.
- Create preemption rules to give priority for execution to crucial jobs during peak times of usage.
- Dynamically add new nodes during peak usage times to ensure throughput.
Who should attend
SAS administrators and system administrators who are responsible for managing and maintaining a SAS Grid Manager environment with SAS Workload Orchestrator
Before attending this course, you should have attended the SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course, or have equivalent experience.
This course addresses SAS Grid Computing software.
This course is for users of the SAS Grid Manager software that was released in SAS 9.4M6 and uses SAS Workload Orchestrator as the grid provider. It does not cover managing a grid utilizing SAS Grid Manager for Platform that uses LSF as the grid provider.
What Is Grid Computing?- SAS 9 Platform and Grid overview.
- Introduction to SAS Grid Architecture.
- Understanding and Managing the SAS Workload Orchestrator Daemon.
- How a shared file system is used in a grid environment.
Configuring the Grid with SAS Workload Orchestrator- Configuring administrators, security, and time-based configurations.
- Assigning hosts to queues for execution of jobs to the queue.
- Setting priorities on queues so that higher priority jobs are executed first.
- Allowing jobs to preempt running jobs from other queues.
- Defining Master hosts.
- Dynamically adding hosts to the grid.
- Setting up groups to control access to the grid.
- Defining resources for use in assigning jobs to hosts or determining whether to suspend/resume a job.
Additional Configuration with SAS Workload Orchestrator- Create time-based queues.
- Using command line interfaces (CLI).
- Making a server highly available.
- Utilizing grid options sets and grid tags.
