High performance, high throughput and technical batch computing applications such as drug discovery and genomics, financial services, and image processing require access to a large and diverse set of computing resources on demand.
Batch on GKE (Batch) is a cloud-native solution for scheduling and managing batch workloads. With Batch, you can leverage the on-demand and flexible nature of cloud. Batch is based on Kubernetes and containers so your jobs are portable.
This Beta release includes the following capabilities:
- Jobs
- Job dependencies
- Queues
- Queues with priorities
- Budgets
- Autoscaling
- User account management
- Data copy to/from cluster
- GPU support
- Submitting shell scripts instead of YAML using Ksub
- Preemptible VM support