Hewlett Packard and the SAS System Script for Slides Slide #1: Cover slide. A montage of some of the HP and SAS products that work together to provide the most effective "information delivery system" (SAS's current, and very accurate 'vision' line). Slide #2: Two brief descriptions of what a user is getting from both HP and SAS. The HP solution provides the base that the SAS System makes use of to deliver it's capabilities. Slide #3: To discuss this HP/SAS information delivery system, one item needs to have a definition that is agreed upon: cooperative computing. This term generally has different meanings to different people. The presentation that follows uses this definition to build from. Agreeing on a definition of this term keeps everyone on the same wavelength as the presentation continues. Slide #4: This is a look at the variety of networked systems that can be set up to handle SAS developed solutions. It is meant as an intro to the HP hardware and software products that can be made use of in providing the 'ultimate' SAS solution. It also introduces the ability to access SAS data stored on IBM and DEC systems via gateways, a very real situation for long time SAS users. Slide #5 & 6: This is a listing of the various hardware components that are available from HP for a cooperative computing environment. (Feel free to add performance data about each family per the customer's area of interest.) Slide #7: Our software products are powerful enablers, allowing users to get more from HP's cooperative computing offerings than those of our competitors. (You can include a brief review of each of these product's capabilities plus a discussion of ease of use per customer interest.) Slides #8 & 9: This is a listing of the current SAS modules that are available on HP-UX platforms. (If your customer is a current SAS user, they are already very familiar with these, if not, you might want to have a SAS SR available/accessible for questions.) Slide #10: This is a listing of both key SAS components/products and the underlying philosophy (MVA) in the SAS architecture that enable SAS users to take advantage of cooperative computing more than most competing applications. The descriptions are brief, but there's more info available from the SAS Institute if necessary. As noted on Slide #8, SAS/Connect and SAS/Assist are currently available on HP-UX systems. SAS/Assist is a SAS developed GUI that allows users to use most of SAS's capabilities with a mouse. SAS/Connect allows a user to move data files (translating them for the destination platform as it moves them) and applications developed in SAS across systems as well as access SAS data sets and run applications with those data sets remotely. SAS/Access is currently available for accessing several data bases (DB2, SQL/DS, ask SAS for others) on IBM mainframes and Oracle on VMS systems. Using it in conjunction with SAS/Connect, HP-UX based SAS users can extract data from their mainframe based Oracle data bases in the form of SAS data sets and move those data sets wherever they want within the cooperative environment for storage and analysis. Slides #11 & 12: Future SAS components list the additional capabilities which will be available in The SAS System during the next year. Slide #13: The TaskBroker slide gives you an idea of the process that HP's Taskbroker goes through in allocating a SAS batch job on a local network. Note that each node on the network is currently loaded differently. Slide #14: Shared-X allows a SAS user to transport their current SAS session to anyone on their local or wide area network. The 'initiator' can grant that/those fellow SAS users the use of a pointer or standard keyboard inputs, node by node. Since Shared-X works via the standard X-Windows protocol, it can "Share" itself with any workstation that conforms to this protocol. Slide #15: NetWare for the 9000 allows native NetWare networks to add the power of an HP-UX system to their current network with little modification. HP 9000 systems allow access to much greater amounts of disc storage, more capable automated backup systems, as well as support of a wide variety of peripherals such as magneto-optical juke-boxes, disc arrays, etc. The HP9000s can act as bridges into the local UNIX environment. Native NetWare on PA-RISC systems in the future will allow HP 9000 products to offer NetWare capabilities to many more nodes than current products can support. Slide #16: Native netware on PA-RISC systems in the future will augment this scenario. Slide #17: A graphical representation of the 'reach' of SAS/Connect. SAS/Connect allows users on HP networks to reach all the SAS data and applications in the enterprise and use both on the HP systems. (This could be used with the slide listing the 'key' SAS products.) Slide #18: This is a graphical representation of a mixed local area showing how 'the needed' compute power can be placed on each desk and still allow access to 'peak' computing power when it's needed, via the various products listed. It's a simplified version of slide #4. This shows that any one of these desktop systems can augment it's power by accessing the mainframe, VAX, or HP 9000/800 in MIS, the 750 local network server, other workstations, and PCs either through TaskBroker, NetWare for the 9000, Shared-X, or SAS/Connect. Thus, we've come full circle back to the distributed computing definition in slide #3. HP and SAS give users real distributed computing NOW!