Availability of SAS at UMBC

For general information on the computing resources available at UMBC please consult the UCS document Fact's in Brief.

UMBC2
UMBC is running SAS version 6.07 and has these sas modules licensed:
Central Unix machines
Under Unix, we are running SAS version 6.10 with these modules licensed:

UMBC has updated it's license and by February 1996, we will be adding:

Running Large Sas Jobs

For SAS programs that require large data files or take large amounts of CPU resources we recommend faculty apply for an account on Hydra, a 20 processor system. This system is configured to handle large CPU or IO intensive programs. This resources is open to faculty performing research but requires that an account form be filled out. This form can be found on the UCS Homepage or directly at the address http://research.umbc.edu/~jack/ucs/about/hydra-form.html

Faculty will find that jobs that take hours or days on other systems can be run in a fraction of the time. In fact, one researcher was able to cut her running time for a SAS program from 2 days on UMBC2 to 2 hours on Hydra!

Author - Jack Suess
Created - 1/15/96