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MISNews.com's SAS Experiment Results features benchmarks comparing the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon server CPUs in a variety of SAS programs. This is a sampling of the work and reports completed.

Currently public SAS articles:

Summary Report Including Six Full Experiments: Performance Differences in SAS due to changes in Memory, Multithreading and Multitasking Configurations
Individual Reports (both incorporated to some extent in summary, supra):
- Measuring Differences in SAS Computation Time when Running a Single Threaded Computationally Intense Intra-SAS Program One Independent Thread vs. Two Independent Threads Simultaneously
- Differences in SAS Computation Time between the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon when running a Computationally Intense SAS Randomization Program

Experiment Team:

Prime Researcher & Webmaster: James D. Abbey
Supervising Professors: Dr. William Duckworth and Dr. W. Robert Stephenson