WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid topology

This topic shows a simple WebSphere® Extended Deployment Compute Grid topology.

Topology for WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid

In addition to the environment discussed in this topic, another type of environment that WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid offers is the unit test environment. See The unit test environment (UTE) topology for details.

The following topology shows a WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid environment. Some nodes are running previous versions of WebSphere Application Server. The middleware agent is required on any node that is prior to Version 6.1.
Figure 1. WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid environment topology with application servers and middleware agents
A WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid topology consisting of a deployment manager, job schedulers, node agents, application servers, and a middleware agent.