https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Why-does-a-Distributed-LASR-Deployment-require-4-servers/m-p/602016#M17579 <P>I was wondering why exactly does a Distributed LASR Deployment require a minimum of 4 servers?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikvisanlytofrvssr/73136/HTML/default/index.html" target="_blank">https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikvisanlytofrvssr/73136/HTML/default/index.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>In a&nbsp;</SPAN><STRONG>Distributed LASR deployment</STRONG><SPAN>, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics require a <STRONG>minimum of a 4-server</STRONG>, 16-core environment (4 servers X 4 cores) on commodity hardware with Intel Xeon architecture. A minimum of 16 GB of RAM is required per core (256 GB total).</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>I cannot find any documentation or explanations of why 4 servers are required.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Would anyone know?</SPAN></P> Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:13:41 GMT JohnMayner12 2019-11-06T15:13:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Why-does-a-Distributed-LASR-Deployment-require-4-servers/m-p/602016#M17579 <P>I was wondering why exactly does a Distributed LASR Deployment require a minimum of 4 servers?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikvisanlytofrvssr/73136/HTML/default/index.html" target="_blank">https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikvisanlytofrvssr/73136/HTML/default/index.html</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>In a&nbsp;</SPAN><STRONG>Distributed LASR deployment</STRONG><SPAN>, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics require a <STRONG>minimum of a 4-server</STRONG>, 16-core environment (4 servers X 4 cores) on commodity hardware with Intel Xeon architecture. A minimum of 16 GB of RAM is required per core (256 GB total).</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>I cannot find any documentation or explanations of why 4 servers are required.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Would anyone know?</SPAN></P> Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:13:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Why-does-a-Distributed-LASR-Deployment-require-4-servers/m-p/602016#M17579 JohnMayner12 2019-11-06T15:13:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Why-does-a-Distributed-LASR-Deployment-require-4-servers/m-p/602114#M17583 <P>I'm guessing that trying to distribute processes across anything less than 4 servers would not be very efficient or effective. You likely be better off going non-distributed with more cores and avoid the overhead of distributing processes entirely.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I'm sure someone like <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1759">@MargaretC</a> could come up with a much more educated answer...</P> Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:13:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Why-does-a-Distributed-LASR-Deployment-require-4-servers/m-p/602114#M17583 SASKiwi 2019-11-06T19:13:16Z