topic Re: Display Number of CPUs in SAS Procedures

Display Number of CPUs

JohnH — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:26:12 GMT

A while ago I came across some SAS code that would display the number of CPUs that SAS sees. I have now lost the code and I need it again. Can anyone please post the code which displays this? Thanks

Re: Display Number of CPUs

sbb — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:13:15 GMT

What CPU environment and operating system? You mention SAS code or do you mean SAS CONFIG option? The CONFIG option is CPUID, it must be specified at SAS invocation time, and the information is presented at the start of the SASLOG.

Depending on your SAS processing environment, there may be an external call to get the desired info.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: Display Number of CPUs

LinusH — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:12:53 GMT

I guess that CPUCOUNT=is the proper system option here. CPUID specifies the id of the CPU (mainly used in ZOS environments). The &sysncpu automatic macro variable displays the setting of CPUCOUNT.

/Linus

Re: Display Number of CPUs

JohnH — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:01:49 GMT

Thanks everyone. Together with your ideas, I created the following code which tells me how many CPUs that SAS sees on any platform.--John

signon servername or mainframename;
rsubmit;
data work.temp;
var=&sysncpu;
run;
proc print;
run;
endrsubmit;
signoff;