SAS 9.4 Language Reference, 6th Edition

Performance Data Server: Administrator’s Guide and SAS Scalable Performance Data

Server: User’s Guide for information.

SAS Intelligence Platform

The SAS Intelligence Platform is an infrastructure for creating, managing, and

distributing enterprise intelligence. This infrastructure supports SAS solutions for

industries such as financial services, life sciences, health care, retail, and manufacturing.

The SAS Intelligence Platform is not part of Base SAS but instead it relies on SAS

Foundation, which includes Base SAS and these components:

• SAS Management Console for defining metadata

• SAS Business Intelligence Server and SAS Data Integration Server technologies

• SAS Integration Technologies, which provides the following:

• the SAS servers and supporting services such as SAS Stored Process Servers

• application messaging

• SAS BI Web Services

• publishing framework

• SAS Foundation Services

The SAS Intelligence Platform Overview discusses individual components and references

a wide spectrum of related SAS Intelligence Platform documentation.

These are the SAS servers in the Intelligence Platform:

• SAS Workspace Server

• SAS Stored Process Server

• SAS Pooled Workspace Server

• SAS OLAP Server

• SAS Metadata Server

Each server is initiated with a pool of active threads. These threads are controlled by the

server and are used by server processes (for example, handling incoming requests). If the

NOTHREADS and CPUCOUNT options are specified, they are ignored, except during

the execution of submitted code that includes a SAS procedure that honors these options.

For the SAS Metadata Server, thread usage is controlled by default settings for the object

server parameters (THREADSMAX and THREADSMIN) and for the metadata server

configuration option, MACACTIVETHREADS. Administrators can override these

settings in order to fine-tune performance. See the SAS Intelligence Platform: System

Administrator’s Guide for details and examples. The THREADMAX and THREADMIN

object server parameters are rarely used for servers other than the SAS Metadata Server.

In the intelligent platform middle tier (which is an infrastructure for web applications),

incoming requests are processed on threads. These threads are defined using the job

execution service. The threads are not constrained by the NOTHREADS or

CPUCOUNT options. Both the number of job queue threads and number of job

execution threads can be specified. Refer to the SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier

Administration Guide.

SAS MP CONNECT is a part of SAS/CONNECT software that is bundled with the

intelligence platform. It supports parallel processing by establishing a connection

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