Tag Archives: I/O

Favourite Platform Admin Papers from SAS Global Forum 2011

By Paul Homes | Published: 9 June 2011

These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2011. As a platform administrator and metadata fan I am obviously biased to a specific subset of papers. I’m sure there were many other great papers at the conference, but these are the ones that I liked the most based on my own interests. [...]

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Spreading the WORK load

By Paul Homes | Published: 12 February 2011

I found a handy tip from Rafi in the discussion Allocating SAS WORK Libraries Dynamically in SAS 9.2 in the LinkedIn group SAS Architects/Administrators/Implementation Specialist. It explains how to use a variation on the SAS system option WORK= to spread work libraries over a number of I/O paths using either random or available space methods. [...]

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Resources for Designing and Configuring I/O Subsystems for SAS® Software

By Paul Homes | Published: 3 September 2010

As a SAS platform administrator, I often find myself discussing the importance of well designed I/O subsystems with customers and I.T administrators/architects. Sometimes it can be a challenge explaining how important it is for SAS applications to have a high sustained sequential I/O throughput. In some cases they may not consider I/O requirements for SAS [...]

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