Batch Processing - Benefits

Benefits

Batch processing has these benefits:

  • It can shift the time of job processing to when the computing resources are less busy.
  • It avoids idling the computing resources with minute-by-minute manual intervention and supervision.
  • By keeping high overall rate of utilization, it amortizes the computer, especially an expensive one.
  • It allows the system to use different priorities for batch and interactive work.

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