SAS

Location

SAS is installed in /apps/sas

There are currently three different versions installed:

• SAS 9.1
• SAS 9.2
• SAS 9.3

Commands

SAS has a number of options:

• -work /location : This is the location of your work area. It is needed if it is not defined in your SAS initialization files.
• -nodms : This stops SAS from using its GUI capability and goes into a text only mode.
• -filelocks none : This causes SAS to not use filelocking.
• -sysin file : Designate a file for SAS to load as its input.

Batch Submission

To do a batch submission to SAS, you would use the -sysin command line option and write all of your SAS commands in a file. In this way you can submit jobs to the batch queue system to run your jobs on the rest of the cluster.

Sample Job Script Ver 9.1

#!/bin/bash
#
#PBS -r n
#PBS -N Ceci-Inside
#PBS -o Ceci-Inside.out
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -M <EMAIL ADDRESS HERE>
#PBS -e Ceci-Inside.err
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=1
#PBS -l pmem=600mb
#PBS -l walltime=00:15:00

EXE=/apps/sas/sas9.1/sas
cd /scratch/ufhpc/camadorp

$EXE -memsize 1024M -nodms -work `pwd` -filelocks none -sysin CECI-OUTSIDE.sas

Note the memsize option above. By default, if this option is not used, SAS will default to 64mb of memory usage.

Sample Job Script Ver 9.2

#!/bin/bash
#
#PBS -r n
#PBS -N Market Research
#PBS -o market.out
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -M <EMAIL ADDRESS>
#PBS -e market.err
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=1
#PBS -l pmem=600mb
#PBS -l walltime=00:15:00

EXE=/apps/sas/9.2/SASFoundation/9.2/sas
cd /scratch/ufhpc/

$EXE -memsize 1024M -nodms -work `pwd` -filelocks none -sysin sas.inp

Sample Job Script Ver 9.3

#!/bin/bash
#
#PBS -r n
#PBS -N Market Research
#PBS -o market.out
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -M <EMAIL ADDRESS>
#PBS -e market.err
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=1
#PBS -l pmem=600mb
#PBS -l walltime=00:15:00

EXE=/apps/sas/9.3/SASFoundation/9.3/sas
cd /scratch/ufhpc/

$EXE -memsize 1024M -nodms -work `pwd` -filelocks none -sysin sas.inp

Possible Errors

• If the following error appears:

ERROR: A lock is not available for #C00002.CORE.CATALOG, lock held by another 
       process.
FATAL: Unable to initialize the options subsystem.
ERROR:   (SASXKINI): PHASE 3 KERNEL INITIALIZATION FAILED.
UNABLE TO INITIALIZE THE SAS KERNEL

You will need to use the -filelocks none option as described above when starting SAS.

ERROR: Library WORK does not exist.
FATAL: Unable to initialize the options subsystem.
ERROR:   (SASXKINI): PHASE 3 KERNEL INITIALIZATION FAILED.
UNABLE TO INITIALIZE THE SAS KERNEL

You need to designate where your work area is with the -work LOCATION directive.

X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
Fatal I/O error
The network connection has been lost.

Traceback
Traceback


No Traceback Available
No Traceback Available

You apparently do not have X11 access to the node, and you will have to use it through a console mode using the -nodms directive.

• If this is the case and you want X11 access to the node, connecting to the node with ssh -X should fix the problem for you. Remember that this has to pass through every node that you are connected through in the chain, so if you connect to the submission node first, that node must be connected with the -X option, then the node that you connect to do the actual interactive work must also be connected to in this fashion.