Making sense of Multi-core Processor technology for SAS Environment
Carl E. Ralston · 2008
The computer industry has been rapidly transitioning from CPUs (chips) with a single processing core to CPUs with dual-, quad- and multi-core configurations. This has changed traditional thinking of SMP servers and has propagated to both desktop and laptop systems. Multiple concurrent jobs and multi-threaded applications are techniques to utilize this change. This paper/presentation will introduce and explain this direction and it’s relevance to the SAS environment. Scalability will be discussed by using examples such as Enterprise Miner scoring, Forecast Server workload, random number parallelization and the inclusion of Intel’s Math Kernel Library in SAS 9.2. Recommendations on how to configure the CPUs, memory and input/output subsystems of your system for optimal SAS software performance will be included.