Azure Batch tasks that run across multiple compute nodes at once, which is how MPI workloads are executed.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Batch
Azure service that schedules parallel, HPC and rendering jobs onto pools of compute nodes it scales automatically; multi-instance tasks support MPI workloads.
- MPI
Message Passing Interface, a standard by which nodes in an HPC job exchange data. Azure Batch runs such workloads using multi-instance tasks.