Running SPSS jobs in parallel

[Singh, Amrita]

Hi,
 
I was wondering if it is possible to run SPSS jobs in concurrence? We
tried it and it does not seem to work. We have several large jobs with
millions of records and they each take a few hours to run. We were
hoping that we did not have to wait for each job to finish before we
could run another. The jobs are not dataset dependent.
 
Thanks for your help,
Amrita Singh

   

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[Jason Burke]

This is where, from my experience, SPSS Server combined with
Predicitve Enterprise Services would serve you well. You can establish
jiobs with indiviual steps that can be set to run concurrently and/or
in sequence with specified conditions (success/failure) etc.

HTH,


Jason

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Singh, Amrita <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to run SPSS jobs in concurrence? We
> tried it and it does not seem to work. We have several large jobs with
> millions of records and they each take a few hours to run. We were
> hoping that we did not have to wait for each job to finish before we
> could run another. The jobs are not dataset dependent.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Amrita Singh
>
>
>
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[Rangel, Aaron]

Hi Amrita,

In addition to using PES as Jason has described (PES gives you several
powerful capabilities like job steps, scheduling, capabilities to manage
your diverse analytical assets and more), you can also run jobs in
parallel on the SPSS Statistics Server using SPSSB (batch mode).
Additional information can be found in the SPSS Batch facility users
guide. As a precautionary measure, when running jobs in parallel, you need
to make sure that files don't overwrite each other.

Thanks
Aaron

Aaron Rangel
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SPSS Inc
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[Singh, Amrita]

Thank you so much Aaron and Jason! I will look further into both of
these options.

Warm regards, Amrita

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Rangel [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:01 PM
To: [hidden email]; Singh, Amrita
Cc: Aaron Rangel
Subject: Re: Running SPSS jobs in parallel

Hi Amrita,

In addition to using PES as Jason has described (PES gives you several
powerful capabilities like job steps, scheduling, capabilities to manage
your diverse analytical assets and more), you can also run jobs in
parallel on the SPSS Statistics Server using SPSSB (batch mode).
Additional information can be found in the SPSS Batch facility users
guide. As a precautionary measure, when running jobs in parallel, you
need to make sure that files don't overwrite each other.

Thanks
Aaron

Aaron Rangel
Sr. Product Manager
SPSS Inc
Phone: [phone]
www.spss.com
SPSS Inc. helps organizations turn data into insight through predictive
analytics.

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