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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!