See SUGI 27 for the official roll out announcements including a Sunday workshop.

But SUGI 26 did have a paper (http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi26/p137-26.pdf) Paper 137-26 Version 9: Scaling the Future Diane Olson, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC Robert Ray, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC

ABSTRACT In Version 6, SAS introduced the SPDS (Scalable Performance Data Server) as a technology to exploit SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processor) hardware for speeding up data services. In Version 9, BASE SAS introduces the SAS Scalable Architecture (SSA). SSA makes parallel processing and partitioned I/O constructs available to the entire SAS System for the first time. What does that mean to you? It means that some elements of your jobs will take full advantage of SMP architectures to reduce time-to- solution for critical tasks. This paper presents an overview of this new strategy to improve your compute and I/O bound tasks, including specifics on how you may get a significant performance increase for your SAS jobs.

-----Original Message----- From: Igor Katelikov [mailto:i_katelikov@TCI.UKRTEL.NET] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:55 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: v.9 new features

Can someone tell me will SAS v9 be realy multithreaded, and where I can find the links to an official information about this ?

Igor.