Server Sizing Papers

Sizing SAS environments is a combination of science and experience, which often makes it akin to a black art.

Here are some papers we have found that give reference sizing and architecture that may help.

Enterprise Business Intelligence Server

SAS® Enterprise BI Server with HP VSE study

The demonstration in this white paper involved the successful integration of HP Integrity servers, HP-UX
11i v2, Virtual Partitions (vPars), HP-UX Workload Manager (WLM), Instant Capacity (iCAP/TiCAP),
and the SAS Enterprise BI Server.

The testing effort was carried out in three stages. The first stage involved using separate entry-class HP
Integrity rx4640 servers for the SAS Enterprise BI Server implementation. The second stage involved
implementing the SAS Enterprise BI solution on a single Integrity rx8620 server with 16 CPUs in a
static virtual partition configuration.

icon SAS Enterprise BI Server with HP VSE study (Link)

Enterprise Miner

SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 benchmark report on HP Integrity servers and HP StorageWorks EVA storage running HP-UX demonstrating near linear scalability

This report details a proof point for SAS Enterprise Miner that demonstrates up to 348 modeling workloads being executed on powerful HP servers and storage. The testing performed by both HP and SAS demonstrates that HP Integrity servers and storage deliver superior-performance, on a dependable and scalable platform for HP-UX SAS customers who are looking for a SAS Enterprise Miner solution. Furthermore, the report shows that HP Integrity servers provide near linear scalability up to a 16 CPU configuration.

icon SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 benchmark report on HP Unix servers (432.25 kB)

HP reference configuration for SAS® Enterprise Miner™: HP BladeSystem running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Small Workload

HP reference configuration for SAS® Enterprise Miner™: HP BladeSystem running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Small Workload
This Reference Architecture describes a hardware environment that is sized to support an entry-level Enterprise Miner environment with 2 concurrent users on HP BladeSystem. This configuration was developed around SAS Analytics Platform 1.2 and SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on HP ProLiant blade servers.

icon HP reference configuration for SAS® Enterprise Miner HP BladeSystem running Microsoft Windows Serv (545.53 kB)