
142 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
determine the best endpoint on which to run the jobs. This system uses autonomic algorithms
to ensure that jobs are load-balanced throughout the system.
As the use of cloud computing evolves, WebSphere Application Server and other
cloud-enabling technologies can serve as the foundation for batch processing. Mixed
application workloads (such as OLTP, batch, message-driven, and other types of workloads)
run within highly virtualized infrastructures. Physical resources, such as processor capacity
and memory, and logical resources, such as database locks, are manipulated to ...