SAS version 9.4_TS1M2 has been installed on the HPC systems. More information about SAS can be found on the SAS Website. While SAS is available on Neon it is licensed software and thus you will need a license in order to use it. To obtain a license or to verify your license please visit the SAS ITS Software page. From here you will be able to purchase a license or verify an existing license that will allow you to use SAS on Neon. Once you have gone through those steps you will be added to the 'sas' group on Neon and that will allow you access to the software.
The default for SAS on Neon is the command line interface. This is usually appropriate for an HPC system but if you need the GUI it can be gotten to with a couple of extra steps. First, you must login to Neon with X11 communication forwarded over the SSH connection. This can be accomplished by the following methods:
- forwarding X11 traffic from a standard terminal
ssh -Y neon.hpc.uiowa.edu - using No Machine (/wiki/spaces/hpcdocs/pages/76514725)
- using FastX (FastX connections)
Once you are logged in then you can start the SAS GUI with the following commands
module load sas sas -dms
Note that no long running compute intensive jobs are allowed to run on the login nodes, whether using the GUI or the command line interface. All such production jobs should be submitted to compute nodes via SGE's qsub process. This generally means putting the following in a script
module load sas sas my_sas_program
and submitting the job via qsub
qsub my_sas_jobscript