The HPCLUS Procedure

PROC HPCLUS Features

PROC HPCLUS enables you to use parallel execution for clustering in a distributed computing environment, while you can still run it in single-machine mode on the server where SAS is installed. The following list summarizes the basic features of PROC HPCLUS:

can execute clustering in parallel
is highly multithreaded
provides a clustering technique based on the k-means method
provides a new technique called the aligned box criterion (ABC) for estimating the number of clusters in the data set