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SAS® GRID AT PHACSAS OTTAWA PLATFORM USERS SOCIETY, NOVEMBER 2012

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC SAS GRID MANAGER

• A SAS grid computing environment is one in which SAS computing tasks are distributed among multiple computers on a network, all under the control of SAS Grid Manager.

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC FEATURES AND BENEFITS

• Performance• Workload Balancing (multi-user and parallelized)• High Availability• Scalability• Distributed Enterprise Scheduling

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC ARCHITECTURE

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SAS GRID AT PHAC ARCHITECTURE

• 64bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11• Virtual Red Hat Server for RTM• OCFS2• LDAP / PAM (Novell eDirectory)

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC DESIGN DETAILS

• Shared executables and configurations

• /sas/software/ {meta} {app} {midtier}• /sas/config/ {meta} {app} {midtier}• /sas/pss/lsf

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SAS GRID AT PHAC DESIGN DETAILS

• Workspace Server clustering (hybrid Grid solution)

• Application Server context association with specific queue:• SASApp – normal queue• SASPriority – priority queue

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SAS GRID AT PHAC DESIGN DETAILS

Normal queue:

QUEUE_NAME = normalPRIORITY = 30NICE = 20PREEMPTION = PREEMPTABLE

Priority queue:

QUEUE_NAME = priorityPRIORITY = 40NICE = 10PREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE

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SAS GRID AT PHAC DESIGN DETAILS

• Reduced sleep times:

• MBD_SLEEP_TIME = 3• SBD_SLEEP_TIME = 5

• Increased MXJ value (128)

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SAS GRID AT PHAC DESIGN DETAILS

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SAS GRID AT PHAC AGENDA

• 1. SAS Grid Manager• SAS Grid Manager• Features and benefits

• 2. Grid at PHAC• Objectives• Architecture• Design details

• 3. Implementation

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Prerequisites• Shared storage• Networking• Users• License, SAS Depot, plan file• Third Party Software

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Platform Suite for SAS 6.1 (PSS)• Install PM, LSF and GMS• Run hostsetup on every node• Install MPI• Test• Install RTM

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Install SAS Software• Install Metadata Server, Application Server and Mid-tier• Configure

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Grid specific options during configuration

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Edit configuration files to configure grid• lsb.params• lsb.hosts• lsf.cluster.[cluster_name]• lsb.queues

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Create new application server context• Associate workspace with grid queue

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

• Play

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC IMPLEMENTATION

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SAS GRID AT PHAC FUTURE

• Metadata HA• More customized queues• Additional queues and application server contexts• DI server• Web Application clustering (horizontal / vertical)

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RESOURCES

• SAS Grid Computing Documents• http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/griddocs.html

• Standard deployment plan - Grid Manager, four machines• http://

support.sas.com/demosdownloads/sysdep_t6.jsp?packageID=000803&searchvar=productCat&searchval=sas%20grid%20manager

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