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What is SAS/CONNECT software? SAS/CONNECT software establishes connections between networked computers with various operating systems and enables organizations to combine the resources of these machines for maximum benefit. It efficiently distributes computing workloads across different CPUs and provides scalability through parallel processes.
Why is SAS/CONNECT software important? With the ability to access, manage and process data in distributed environments, you can maximize use of all computing resources to shorten execution times and speed decision making.
For whom is SAS/CONNECT software designed? This product is designed for those who need to more fully exploit their distributed computing resources, including SMP hardware, and provide users with access to data and increased processing power from a multitude of systems.
Key Benefits
- Reduce costs by fully exploiting existing IT infrastructures. SAS/CONNECT software enables you to integrate hardware, applications and data from distributed, heterogeneous platforms and provides an easy way to minimize idle CPU cycles. This reduces the need for constant hardware upgrades to meet growing CPU, memory and I/O requirements.
- Speed up application performance and lessen the time it takes to transform and analyze data. You can divide jobs into independent units and distribute them across multiple CPUs in your environment.
- Eliminate data silos and isolated islands of information. With SAS/CONNECT software, you can integrate and access data and applications on remote systems throughout the enterprise. SAS offers a unique multi-platform environment as well as transparent representation of data from different platforms — eliminating manual encoding and decoding of data from various systems.
Key Features
- Compute services enable the use of multi-processor and remote computing resources, including hardware, software and data, to most efficiently execute an application.
- Data transfer services provide a method for moving a copy of data from one machine to another, where a physical copy is then created. Subsequent local processing takes places against the local copy of the data without generating further network traffic until you decide to update the copy with another transfer.
- Remote library services provide access to remote data libraries as if they were stored locally. The services allow you to maintain a single copy of your data and build applications that provide seemingly identical access to local and remote data without requiring users to know where the data resides.
- Independent parallelism allows you to divide your application into independent pieces that can be executed simultaneously and then merged into a final result set. This type of asynchronous, parallel processing can occur on the same machine or on different machines.
- Pipeline parallelism speeds throughput by allowing data to be piped from one process to another between SMP or distributed processors. Rather than having to wait for one process to finish writing output before another begins, piping enables the waiting process to begin as soon as the first process starts generating data.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS/CONNECT Software fact sheet  .
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