Batch Services Defined - Intergraph Batch Services - Installation & Upgrade

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Batch Services is a Windows system service that allows you (or an application) to manage and perform non-interactive tasks on your computer system. Batch Services gives users and applications a means of submitting compute-intensive tasks as processes that will run in the background (non-interactively), and provides notification when the tasks complete.

To perform tasks using Batch Services, you submit a batch job to the system running Batch Services (the batch server). The batch job provides information to the batch server about the tasks you want to accomplish and how you want the batch job to run. When a job is successfully submitted, it gets a unique job ID, enters a queue (a waiting list for processing), and then runs on the batch server system as if you were logged in to the system and executing the task yourself.

Batch Services is useful to both system administrators and users. Delayed execution of tasks allows maintenance- and compute-intensive tasks, such as system data backups or compilation of large programs, to be scheduled for times when the system is not in use. Batch Services also allows several client computers to use a multiprocessor server as a “compute engine” for compute-intensive tasks. A large task can be spread out among several batch server systems available on the network.

Batch Services can be used with several Intergraph products, including Intergraph Smart® 3D, Plant Design System® (PDS), and Intergraph Smart® Interop Publisher.