Yes, I am talking about standard SAS datasets accessed via the base engine. I discourage you from putting SPDE/SPD Server on the same machine as LASR. Those two are likely to compete heavily for resources, so you are likely to have performance issues if placed on the same machine. As for other SAS/ACCESS engines... again, I would recommend that the data sources are NOT placed on the same machines. Of course you will likely still need to use the SAS/ACCESS engines to pull the data to the SMP server. Once that is done, the choice is now yours... As I said, you can place it into datasets on that machine, or stream it directly into memory. Streaming it directly into memory clearly is faster than writing it to disk, just to read it back and put it into LASR memory. But if pulling data from the remote source is slow for whatever reason, it is sometimes good to have a local copy.
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