Introducing Azure Batch

Azure Batch is an Azure service that can be used to perform large-scale parallel batch processing. It is typically used for high-performance computing applications such as image analysis, 3D rendering, genome sequencing, optical character recognition, and so on.

Azure Batch consists of three main components:

• Resource management: This takes care of node management (things such as VMs and Docker containers), autoscaling, low-priority VM management, and application management. Applications are just ZIP files of all the executables, libraries, and config files required to be run for the batch job.
• Process management: This takes care of the job and task scheduling, retrying failed jobs, enforcing constraints on jobs, and so on. A job is a logical unit of work. A job is split into tasks that can run in parallel on the nodes from the VM or container pool.
• Resource and process monitoring: This takes care of all the monitoring aspects. There are several...