Running SAS on Clark

Use the PBS scheduler to run SAS on Clark, otherwise your job will not run efficiently. Briefly, this requires executing your SAS program from within a scriptfile:

#PBS -l cput=1:00:00,ncpus=1,mem=1gb
sas program

The ncpus term should be set to 1 as SAS does not run on more than 1 processor. The cput and mem params should be set to allow enough time and memory, respectively.

Use qsub to submit the job to PBS:

qsub scriptfile

In addition to the SAS file outputs an error and output file will be created at the end of the run and both will have the job id added as a suffix.

Running SAS on Lewis

To run jobs efficiently on Lewis the LSF scheduler is used. Here is a sample SAS job script named mysasjob for LSF that launches a sas program called means.sas:

#BSUB -J testsas
#BSUB -oo testsas.o%J
#BSUB -eo testsas.e%J
sas means.sas

To start your run use the following:

bsub < mysasjob