Leonid,

Great article! One observation, if I may?

You can run parallel processing in Base SAS (no Connect) by using SYSTASK too. As long as the XCMD in turned-on on your machine (local or server).
I did some small tutorial about it some time ago, it is all available at:
https://pages.mini.pw.edu.pl/~jablonskib/SASpublic/Parallel-processing-in-BASE-SAS.sas

and discussed it at communities.sas.com post too:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-Parrallel-Processing/m-p/699295#M213925

All the best
Bart