This course provides an introduction to the SAS Grid environment and teaches how to submit SAS workload to the grid from a variety of different SAS products and user interfaces. The course includes hands-on exercises that run SAS applications with SAS Grid Manager and convert existing SAS programs to run on the grid. This course is also included in SAS Grid Manager service offerings, designed to help you build a grid environment that is modern, flexible, and forward-looking.
Learn how to
- apply SAS Grid Manager concepts and terminology
- submit SAS programs on the grid
- modify existing SAS programs to run on the grid
- create and submit parallel SAS programs to the grid.
Who should attend
SAS programmers in a SAS Grid Manager environment and SAS administrators who are responsible for administering SAS and would benefit from learning how SAS programs can be seamlessly integrated with a SAS Grid Manager environment
Before attending this class, you should be familiar with SAS programming concepts. Experience with SAS Studio is required. You can gain this knowledge by completing the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course and/or SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques
course.
This course addresses SAS Grid Computing software.
This course addresses SAS Grid Computing software and will require an understanding and doing of 4GL programming in SAS.
Introduction to SAS Grid Computing- SAS Grid architecture and administration
- understanding grid processing
SAS on the Grid- understanding workspace servers
- grid enabling SAS programs
- modifying programs for parallel processing
- SAS Grid enablement with the SCAPROC procedure
Submitting SAS Jobs on the Grid- SAS Grid submission using the SASGSUB utility
- scheduling jobs to run on the grid
- converting existing programs
SAS Client Applications on the Grid- overview of SAS client applications in a SAS Grid environment
- SAS Enterprise Guide on the SAS Grid
- SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office running on the SAS Grid
- SAS Enterprise Miner on the SAS Grid
- SAS Data Integration Studio with the SAS Grid
