Designing for Azure Batch Solutions
When to use Azure Batch
Azure Batch enables large-scale parallel and HPC batch jobs
- Compute-intensive tasks anbd dynamically adjust resources for your solution without managing infrastructure.
- Create and manage jobs in a pool of compute nodes (virtual machines).
- Azure Batch can also install the application that you want to run, and schedule jobs to run on the compute nodes.
How Azure Batch works
Think of the diagram in two parts:
- Your service that uses Azure as the platform.
- Batch as the compute platform behind your service. Batch uses Azure Storage to fetch applications or data needed to complete a task.
Considerations:
- Pools- dynamically allocate jobs, right size the pools.
- Nodes - use multiple nodes in the pool, right size the machines.
- Jobs - uniquely name the jobs, monitor and log activity.