MP CONNECT can greatly reduce the total elapsed time that is required
to execute your SAS applications that contain tasks that can be executed
in parallel. MP CONNECT provides a syntactic interface to distribute
multiple units of work across idle CPUs either on the same SMP computer
or across multiple computers on your network.
MP CONNECT uses hardware
resources that you might have thought were outdated and useless.
Using MP CONNECT, you can put multiple, slow, inexpensive computers
to work in parallel on a job, transforming them into a powerful and
inexpensive computing resource.
Large jobs that previously
never finished executing can be implemented via MP CONNECT to repeatedly
distribute small pieces of a problem to multiple processors until
the entire problem is solved.
MP CONNECT enables you
to use SAS in cluster and grid environments for high performance computing.
Piping enables you to
overlap the execution of one or more SAS DATA steps and procedures
in order to accelerate processing. Piping has the added benefit of
eliminating the need to write intermediate SAS data sets to disk,
which not only saves time but reduces the physical disk space requirements
for your SAS processing.