topic SAS MP/CONNECT - Maximum no. of nodes possible? in SAS Procedures

SAS MP/CONNECT - Maximum no. of nodes possible?

tejeshwar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:37:46 GMT

Hi,

I am using MP/Connect for parallel processing and currently running 7 nodes from a single client session.

I am looking at probably increasing the nodes for parallel procession, can anyone tell me how many nodes are possible from a single client session.

Thanks in advance

Tejeshwar

Re: SAS MP/CONNECT - Maximum no. of nodes possible?

LinusH — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:00:12 GMT

I can't find anything in the documentation that would imply a syntactically limit for number of spawned processes. I did a test on Solaris and could easily spawn 100 processes. So from a possibility perspective, I guess going from seven to 100 would be than enough for you in the short term? I think you might take other things into account, such overall load, data throughput and such.

/Linus

Re: SAS MP/CONNECT - Maximum no. of nodes possible?

tejeshwar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:45:41 GMT

Thanks for replying.

Infact I am also using Solaris, let me test this out today.
will let you know in case i have any issues in execution.

Re: SAS MP/CONNECT - Maximum no. of nodes possible?

Peter_C — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:42:46 GMT

I bet it's limited only by the number of licensed nodes that you can connect to

and you can connect to a node more than once