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Batch

Fully managed batch service to schedule, queue, and execute batch jobs on Google's infrastructure.

  • Provisions and autoscales capacity while eliminating the need to manage third-party solutions

  • Natively integrated with Google Cloud to run, scale, and monitor your workload

  • Reduce the computing costs of workloads with Spot machines

  • Start using Batch now with this quickstart guide

Benefits

Focus on business critical tasks

Leverage fully managed and scalable compute infrastructure to shift focus to job submission and extracting business insights from the job's results.

Define your execution model

Run high throughput or tightly coupled computations defined by a script or container.

Enhanced developer experience

Batch simplifies workload development and execution. Batch jobs can be submitted within a few steps. Leverage Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Logging, and Workflows for an end-to-end developer experience.

Key features

Key features

Dynamic resource provisioning and autoscaling

Run any scale batch jobs on cloud compute resources to limit job wait times while executing requests in parallel and scaling resources without manual intervention.

Support for scripts and containerized workloads

Batch provides a consistent experience for Docker containerized workloads or script based workloads that run directly on VMs.

Leverage native services and batch tools

Easily adopt first-party services to control the end-to-end batch workflow from preprocessing to postprocessing.

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Roivant
At Roivant Discovery, we leverage massive computational simulations to drive the discovery of novel drugs across small molecule modalities. Our scientists are required to operate at the cutting edge of quantum physics with speed and agility, at scale. Google Batch's unprecedented simplicity and flexibility will ensure we're always focused on innovation.

Matt Maisak, COO at Roivant Discovery

Documentation

Documentation

Quickstart

Batch quickstart

Learn about what is needed to get started with Batch and how easy it is to create a batch job in the console, gcloud, REST API, and client libraries. 
Google Cloud Basics

Defining different types of batch jobs and more.

Learn how to submit containerized and script based workloads. These jobs can be array jobs or multi-node jobs using MPI libraries.
Google Cloud Basics

Storage file systems

Learn about the storage file systems supported by Batch and how to use them with a batch job.
Google Cloud Basics

Monitor your job

Learn how to view logs to gather insights on job tasks and how to describe the job to inspect its details and statuses.
APIs & Libraries

Using