Date:         Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:03:19 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: performance benchmarking
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219-30: Programmatically Measure SAS(r) Application Performance.
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Michael A. Raithel
www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/219-30.pdf

215-29: Measuring SAS Software Usage on Shared Servers with the RTRACE
Facility.
Michael A. Raithel,
www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/215-29.pdf


> From: stratton_37
> I'm involved in a software evaluation process, and one of the
> things that we are seeking to do is find independent
> benchmarking studies that compare SAS performance with other
> software.  Parameters that we're interested in include speed
> and memory usage efficiency.
>
> Ideally it would be a study that performed an identical set
> of operations (loads, joins, sorts etc.) on the same hardware
> platform but using different software packages.  I appreciate
> that different software goes about things in different ways,
> but wondered f anyone knows of any such comparisons?