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SAS file name: Multithread_Processing
File location: 
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Purpose: To demonstrate how to use multiple threads when processing SAS programs
Author: Peter Clemmensen
Creation Date: 18/12/2017

This program supports the example page "Multithreaded Processing in SAS" on SASnrd.com

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data RandData;
   do i=1 to 10e7;
      x=ceil(10*rand('uniform'));
      output;
   end;
run;

options threads cpucount=1;
proc sort data=RandData;
   by x;
run;

options threads cpucount=2;
proc sort data=RandData;
   by x;
run;

options threads cpucount=4;
proc sort data=RandData;
   by x;
run;

options threads cpucount=8;
proc sort data=RandData;
   by x;
run;